/lit/ - Literature

>>11360918
https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/55ygr0/no_spoilers_what_are_the_odds_of_grrm_winning_the/

lol

>>8759091

Fite me IRL m8

Seriously I'm a pretty big guy. Taller than average, very broad, heavy, deep scary voice. In the old days these kind of features were made for threats and fights. Why do you think human males are bigger than human females? We evolved this way because we were always fighting for mates.

>>6002676

>citation needed

inb4 a rant about degeneracy courtesy of /pol/.com

>>5853982
>Most people who are X are a specific myers briggs type.
>HURR ITS USELESS HURR!!1!!

>>5337469

>>4897198

no I know who you are Satan, you're the trip/namefig/person who went to like jail camp or something right? The anon I quoted doesn't know so he must be a newfag and I can call him on it to validate how much time i spend on this site.

If it's you welcome back.

>>4119523
It's 'gender neutral'

>tumblr
>feminism
>how to write fiction
>mfw

>>3998039
Why would I not recommend Mommsen? Because his theories have been badly outdated by archaeological evidence - his work to translate and publish hundreds of minor works and numerous pieces of epigraphic evidence was herculean and we are still using his translations etc. today - but he is cited today because he was ONCE an influential doyen of the classics - but his theories themselves are more useful if studied in the context of historiography than they are for actually understanding the ancient world. The same can be said of Gibbon.

Moreover, you clearly are somebody who has studied Ancient History/Classics - for those that are entirely uninitiated, even the highly accessible translations with commentaries available today still present alien worlds and highly unfamiliar circumstances. If one were to simply read the Annals of Tacitus, without any prior knowledge of the historical period of 14 - 68 AD, you'd be damned fucking confused - who are these people being tried thick and fast? Who the shit is Germanicus? Why is a Roman Emperor pussyfooting around the senatorial classes when he's the bloody emperor?

The primary sources are absolutely essential, but without context they are just as indecipherable as many Medieval Chronicles.

>>3913219
>Old Greeks
>Old
>Not Ancient

Top lel m8

>>3874547
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