/lit/ - Literature

>>20186950
please don't do this to me

>>20186950
But I'm trying to forget, anon....

>>20186950
>he fire of the library of Alexandria
meme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQX9Lh65rAA

>>20186950
have you tried DMT, bro? I got access to the library once through chronosphere projection once, read some crazy shit in there

>>20186950
How many works of non-negligible interest were really conserved in a single manuscript (or a couple kept in the same place which would have been extra stupid)?
I guess it destroyed a good deal of archives from Hellenistic/Roman administration that would have been invaluable to historians, but the meme fire is not the reason many works of ancient literature have been lost.

If it makes you feel any better it probably wasn’t anything too important. Definitely lost a bunch of plays, histories, and religious texts but other than that it was probably just mediocre stuff. How many books are really worth saving of all the stuff we print today. I would definitely love to have the complete greek tragedies or the works of Heraclitus but they aren’t necessary for reaching some ultimate truth.

>people still believe the meme this retard perpetuated

>>20186950
>Of Aristotle's over 200 philosophical works, only 31 are known to have survived to the present day.
WAKE ME UP INSIDE

>Aristotle fled Athens in 323 BC, and the university continued to function after his lifetime under a series of leaders until the Roman general Sulla destroyed it during his assault on Athens in 86 BC. The remains of the Lyceum were discovered in modern Athens in 1996 in a park behind the Hellenic Parliament.
SAVE ME

>>20186960
>only lesser known literary works perished
BUT THOSE ARE BEST AAAAAAHHHHHHHH

>>20186950
It was the first great reset
The musselmen ran off with the pharos as well
the whole thing burned

how many lessons yet to be learned?

Who’s got the time traveler post

>>20187025
And naturally they would be lesser known because they burned in a fire before anyone could come to know them.

>>20186950
nothing was actually lost, it's just being kept secret by the

>>20186950
less is more

>>20186997
> Definitely lost a bunch of plays, histories, and religious texts... the complete greek tragedies or the works of Heraclitus but

No buts, compared to what we have today this stuff is immeasurable. Who knows how many great pieces of work we have lost. For all we know, there might have been works of even greater quality then anything that we currently have.
It's a terrible analogy trying to compare it to the drivel written today, which is just a hivemind. We have very little left of what was written. Having these works would completly change the course of history. What I wouldn't do for the one known work of Heraclitus, and more complete writings from the pre-socratics. Just for Heraclitus, I would sacrifice every non-scientific book written in the past half century. All these works we are writing now are just based on what little we DO have left over from the Greeks. It's all derivative. To have more of these writings would change the world.

Here is your amazing modern art bros:

In December 2004, Duchamp's Fountain was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century by 500 selected British art world professionals. Second place was afforded to Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and third to Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych (1962).[60]

>>20186950
Good.

Not much was lost. I've talked to classics profs about this. One disaster does not mean the end to everything. Copies of books were kept elsewhere by other people. The Library went down in standing disaster after disaster, and thus, books went elsewhere.

>>20187560
>the most influential artwork
Uh-huh.
"Influence" is not an evaluative term in the sense that you take it to be.
The most influential part of my day is the running shits I've had since I woke up. Acknowledging that it has influenced my day greatly that I've spent so much of it emptying myself of liquid hot death diarrhea does not entail that I find it particularly enjoyable or worthwhile.

>we know nothing little to nothing about the indus valley civilization

>>20187560
>picasso
>warhol
>second and third place after an actual toilet
Excellent. Fuck those hacks.

>>20187001
Good

>>20186960
>YouTube
This is like citing Wikipedia

>>20187880
>I rather believe reddit memes
ok

>>20187068
No they would be lesser known because they didn't have a copy elsewhere.

>>20187527
Lol no they would not. I wouldn't burn a single Sanderson copy just to read some Greek pontificate about the essence and form of cooking meat

>>20186950
Which fire of the Library of Alexandria? It was only burnt about 40 separate times over a period of 900 years

>>20187527
No one knows exactly what was lost or when even the "great fire" actually was; if it was overzealous Christians in late antiquity or the result of Alexandria's sacking by Roman soldiers after still continuing to back the deposed Zenobia of the brief splitaway empire Palmyrene Empire.

Either way, basically all of Roman history is written second-hand. Hadrian's autobiography is lost, we only have some glimpses of what Roman life was like (thanks also due to people literally flash-burned into ash), who the emperors were, and a few other things.

Like we know a lot about William Henry Harrison, even though he served for a month as President; we know his life story, his inauguration address, his plans for the country, his family, his death, his burial. There are Roman emperors who ruled the entire empire for several years and we know almost nothing about them except their name, that they ruled in that time, and maybe some busts and coins. But again...Harris was less than 200 years ago, instead of over 1500 years ago.

>>20187040
The chads rose up and killed the pedo Greekcuck "pholosopher" elite
And it is happening again

>>20188140
That one time the christfags did it to burn all of Epicurus’ pieces