/lit/ - Literature

>>5085805

I know, man. And I really don't want to turn this thread into a debate about Western canon.

Of course, by "classics", I'm speaking in the strict sense of ancient Greek and Hellenistic literature.

In common parlance, many people think of 19c novels when they hear "classics". The truth is that we don't really know what to call great works of literature after the classical era...

Mainstream publishers just do a series of great works and call it their "classics". Oxford World's classics, Penguin classics, etc.

Also, thanks for the honey-sweet lines. It's true, you know. Pindar was writing odes to Olympic victors for money, but he's also preaching the hardcore philosophy of the pre-Socratics. Imagine standing on stage with your medal or amphora or whatever and hearing this dude talk about fatalism and death.

>>5065975

Every single living American academic "philosopher" today.

>HURR SMITH AND JONES
>HURR THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
>MUH INTUITIONS
>MUH SYMBOLIC LOGIC
>IF AN AGENT A AT A TIME T1 WITH A SET OF PREFERENCES P COMMITS AN ACT I IN A SOCIETY S WITH A SET OF MORAL NORMS N BLAH BLAH BLAH

Get fucked with a rake.