/lit/ - Literature

Because you start at the start and not somewhere else

/lit/tle boy asspussy

>>17223820
hmmmm no, i think the real reason is /lit/ doesn't want more people shitposting abouut actually relevant things so they try to trick them into reading works from a people who ceased to exist 2000 years ago.

>>17223834
Yes that's probably why higher education in philosophy or history or literature makes you start with the Greeks too, right retard? Stop posting here until you've read some books please.

>>17223842
then why does "start with the greeks" in google only give you /lit/ memes?

and the objectives of academia and /lit/ are very different. this is a shitposting battleground between enemies, theirs is edumacation.

>>17223816
Because they’d the ground upon which all western literature stands on. Everything to some extent is mere imitation of the Greeks

>>17223816
Because most (to not say all) literary works are made by educated peoples who are either making direct or indirect references to those major works of art and culture. If you don’t have at least a basic level of understanding of the Greeks and the Bible you are missing like half of the literary content of the book you are reading.

>>17223859
>>17223856
>>17223842
is /lit/ really this far behind the meta?

>>17223834
>actually relevant things
...
You think Greek philosophers didn't talk about relevant things? That only the flavor of the month in American politics is relevant?

>>17223856
>Everything to some extent is mere imitation of the Greeks
med propoganda.

>>17223856
>Because they’d the ground upon which all western literature stands on
yet their alphabet and corpusu lost to the Romans. Strange!

>>17223863
you don't seem to understand what relevant means in the context of this website and community.

>>17223873
What would be relevant?

>>17223889
dominates board culture, gets lots of (yous) and a high reply rate

Fuck you new year resolution shitters who have been ruining this board for a few days now. Can't wait until next week when you stupid cunts go back to living your loser lives and I can read a single /lit/ thread that isn't filled to the brim with utmost knuckledragging idiocy. Eat shit until you drop. "Greeks are not relevant to this website and community", fucking hell.

>>17224046
the aren't. lurk more or go back to r*ddit.

>>17223816
>what's the reason for this meme?
because the people you find great found people great who found people great who made antiquity the center of their education.

A guide for the strong, a filter for the weak

>>17224051
suck on a blowtorch and get your retarded face back to /tv/ you illiterate baboon

>he thinks i'm from /tv/

>>17223816
If you're interested in western philosophy, the greeks are the foundation of everything, so you should start with them
If you're interested in eastern philosophy, it's also good to know about them but not particularly necessary