/lit/ - Literature

>>17009134
if you haven't written the modern equivalent of machiavelli, as low a bar as that may be, you probably wouldn't have the wisdom of machiavelli if you were alive in his time, i.e. you would probably have been a pigfucker, like you are now. so go easy on old, seemingly out-dated thinkers, they would probably be smarter than you if they were alive today

you think you can just "start with Plato"? listen kid, you gotta start with a tome on ancient greek history, then a tome on mythology, then learn ancient Greek, then read every pre-Socratic fragment, then read the entirety of the 3 H's (Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus) before you even THINK you can "start with Plato". god damn amateur