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20153575 No.20153575 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: we decided which is the correct way to start
>start with the Greeks
Or
>start with the Bronze Age Sumerians

>> No.20153581
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20153581

Greeks. Never 'erd of the Sumerians, don't care about 'em.

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>>20153581
>Never 'erd of the Sumerians
Chart for reference

>> No.20153606
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>>20153597
And Greek one

>> No.20153854

>>20153575
>>20153575
>>20153581
But why do I have to start with either of them if I just want to read Brothers Karasov or War and Peace, I don’t get it

>t. Non-reader

>> No.20153950

>>20153854
Because both have influenced the world and are thus part of common culture
Ie: Achilles heel, the term politics and how it is done, way western thought is conducted, etc.

>> No.20153954

>>20153581
based

>> No.20153967

Start with the Greeks since they wrote their own history and you don't have to rely on tenuous archeological speculation.
>inb4 cope

>> No.20154163

>>20153575
I started with the Moomins

>> No.20154181

>>20153854
Read what you want to read. Nothing will kill your joy faster than slogging through stuff you don’t want to read. Unless you’re an academic, there is no reason to be a “chart reader”

>> No.20154189

>>20153597
This chart is literally a joke anon, there is very little worth to be extracted by a reader looking to get into canon literature/philosophy/history in these books

>> No.20154234

End with the prehistorics. fuck civilization

>> No.20154274

>>20154163
>he didn't journey with the Germans

>> No.20154334

>>20153950
Sumarians, at least there writtings, are not all that influential content wise.