/lit/ - Literature

One more bump

Pop quiz on it later

>>8847787
>Plato

1. By starting with the Greeks, we don't mean just philosophy.
2. If you're so into philosophy, nothing addresses nihilism like Epicurus/Lucretius.

>>8847828
3. For me, the myths, all mythology really, helps. Since there is no meaning to life, we are left to choose our own purpose. I love the hero's quest. Life is for fun.

>>8098065
Life is a process, it decays, it regenerates, you die. So what? It's not all bad.

>>8098107
I have a Bennet and a Humphries. I've heard good things about Slavitt's and Englert's too. I'll look into Hackett now.

OP is likely a troll, but I'll join in anyway.

Atheists don't have a myth, they have all myths in full knowledge of their fiction status. Atheists have the categories of non-fiction as their own. Every scientific discovery, every philosophical idealism, kind of historiography. There was once a thread asking what an atheist bible would look like, and honestly, it would dwarf the largest encyclopedia set. What would an epic poem to the multiplicity of the world be like? A library.

Is Penguin's Stallings translation better than this Slavitt?

Hey /lit/, do you happen to know what (poetic) translation of Lucretius' De rerum natura is best?

Picture related seems to have some good reviews