/lit/ - Literature

>>23498118
OP—Socrates, did you know that Shakespeare was the Hollywood blockbuster of his day?
Soc—I'm a bit confused, OP, because Shakespeare died in 1616, while the first summer Hollywood blockbuster, Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, was in 1975. How can Shakespeare be a Hollywood blockbuster, then, when there is a distance of 359 years?
OP—Now, Socrates, I was not speaking literally, but only metaphorically.
Soc—Do you agree that a metaphor is to identify hidden similarities between two different ideas?
OP—I agree with this definition.
Soc—The obvious similarity between Shakespeare and Hollywood blockbuster is that Shakespeare's plays were popular with the masses in his place and time, as Hollywood blockbusters are now.
OP—Yes.
Soc—But there are also differences between the two. Hollywood blockbuster are movies, which chiefly rely on visuals, and thus entrance the audience with special visual effects, while Shakespeare's plays chiefly rely on words, and thus entrance the audience with poetry.
OP—Yes.
Soc—So it is clear that not every quality found in Hollywood blockbusters is also found in Shakespeare.
OP—Correct.
Soc—Now, is it the general opinion that Hollywood blockbusters are a kind of lowbrow art with little merit?
OP—Yes, that is the general opinion.
Soc—Then when it is read literally, your statement, "Shakespeare was the Hollywood blockbuster of his day", it implies that Shakespeare's plays are also a kind of lowbrow art with little merit.
OP—Yes.
Soc—But your statement is not literally true, but only metaphorically true.
OP—That is correct.
Soc—Then you are trying to trick people, by using the literal sense of your statement in order to insult Shakespeare, but using the metaphorical sense of your statement in order to defend the statement when claimed erroneous.
OP—I confess, Socrates. I was just trying to bait anons on /lit/ and fish for (you)'s.

>>23093513
They are extremely good reads. Insofar as later thinkers stray from Parmenides and pals, the later thinkers are hopeless retards doomed to failure.

Also, read Elea:

https://amazon.com/dp/B0CTXF64CJ

Western philosophy went off the rails and never recovered. If you want to have any hope of successfully doing philosophy, you need to go back to Elea.

>>22095393
i don't give a fuck what you do, i'm busy owning this clown in a digital argument

The book is true in the sense that the west was built on Europeans slathering a thick layer of Graeco-Roman marmalade on the alien and judaic shit sandwich of christianity.

>>20904590
Sjung, O Gudinna om vreden som brann hos Peliden Akilles.

Great lit. Read it this winter and finished the odyssey during summer. Looking back The Iliad was better but I enjoyed reading the Odyssey more in the moment. To many lists in The Iliad. Gonna read The Aenad during this autumn I think as soon as I finnish Ceasars war in gaul. Prob gon read The Aenad paralell with The Leviathan. After that, Metamorphoses!

Hope you like it Anon. Please write what you think so far.

>>20194890
So are the run-on sentences a mistake, or are you legit trying to win https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ ?
Not trying to be mean.

>>16207284
I am a direct descent of Plato

Replace the bible with the teaching of the greeks and you'd be right.

I find it hard to believe Zizek is being sincere in this video given that he is supposed to be some kind of Marxist.

The reason that the alt-right is a countercultural element is because the 60s left completely capitulated to liberal capitalism, and accepted their fate as middle class academics.

Zizek knows this perfectly well as he is a part of that class himself, but if he said it out loud he would alienate at least half of his audience, so he obviously has to tap dance all over the place.

Correct reconstructed pronunciation is "Soo-krah-tehs"

However, in modern Greek it's "Soo-kra-tees".

>>10668534
Titus Andronicus for pure violence,
Coriolanus for political psychology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOvVWiDsPWQ&

>>9803609
>Pick one

Why? It's the same God.

Both Zeus and Jupiter come from the Proto-Indo European sky-god Dyeus Pater.

>Studied Ancient Greek at university as part of Classics
>every other language feels like a joke to learn now

Feelsgoodman.

>mfw our memes get confirmed by Based Jünger

This is a good feel.

>>9375891
How many dicks have you eaten?

>>9331701

Maybe the fact that noble Hector gets killed by the bitch nigga Achilles is actually the core tragedy of The Iliad?

What kind of philosophy should I read if I just want practical advise on day to day living and ways to deal with the meaningless and mundane nature of living?

>>8738343
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYRKzOl_hV8

>>8730208
>With a Spartan rigour which never ceased to amaze his slave servant, Socrates would get up every morning when the faintly dawning sky was still grey, and, after washing himself with cold water from the greek vase in his bedroom and drinking some warm wine, he would, when not fellated by young boy pupils, talk uninterruptedly until eleven in the morning. He then went for a brisk, two-hour marathon through the nearby forest or along the edge of Acropolis, stopping every now and then to ask his latest thoughts to random craftsmen he always found around with him. Returning for a late symposium at the local lord's manor, Socrates, who cherised promiscuity, sought the midday crush of the orgy in the large dining-room and ate a more or less ‘private’ lunch, usually consisting of a beefsteak and an ‘unbelievable’ quantity of dicks, which was, Plato persuaded, the chief cause of his frequent stomach upsets. After luncheon, usually dressed in a long and somewhat threadbare toga, and armed as usual with thick, bulgy, and a large musscles to shade his intellect, he would stride off again on an even longer walk, which sometimes took him up the Mount Parnassus as far as its majestic oracle. Returning ‘home’ between four and five o’clock, he would immediately get back to work, sustaining himself on young aristocratic boys, peasant boys, wine (sent from Sicily), fruit and pots of ambrosia he brewed for himself in the little upstairs ‘dining-room’ next to his bedroom, until, worn out, he snuffed out the candle and went to bed around 11 p.m.

>>8485607

Too many poo in the loo language fucks in this thread.

Ancient Greek is the patrician language, if you don't agree you can go poo in a loo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOvVWiDsPWQ

>>8357379
>The way you play your hand is free will.

Except the way you play your hand is also a part of the hand that is dealt to you.