/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14727697]

>The episodes were later connected by a continuous narrative. The establishment of a fixed cycle of twelve labours was attributed by the Greeks to an epic poem, now lost, written by Peisander,
>Now lost
>Lost
It's not FAIR.

[Anonymous No.14727720]

Did you really just make a coomer meme using Cowboy Bebop?

[Anonymous No.14727723]

>>14727697
90% of classical literature LOST
90%

[Anonymous No.14727743]

>>14727723

[Anonymous No.14727813]

>>14727723
>monks literally spending all their time gardening, praying, and snatching up any classical books to copy in order to preserve
>atheist claims they seek them out to destroy

[Anonymous No.14727816]

>>14727813
this. the reason why we still have the majority of classical literature is because of monks copying down the best over and over again.

[Anonymous No.14727822]

>>14727723
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkening_Age#reception

Literally all educated people claims this book is shit.

[Anonymous No.14727846]

>>14727813
>and snatching up any classical books to copy in order to preserve
Yes, classical books that reiterate and bring back into play simple and decadent metaphysics. Where, pray tell, have those monks, truly holier than thou, left the books annihilating their pathetic metaphysics written by the Romans? I believe you'll find the remains of those in the ash of their fires. The destruction of the Romans is the final product of Roman civilization.

[Anonymous No.14727905]

>>14727697
>imagining the presocratics in a complete form
it hurts so bad /lit/bros

[Anonymous No.14727933]

>>14727905
>tfw the best thing we have left is The Rock playing Hercules

[Anonymous No.14728099]

One thing I don't understand about the Labours of Hercules is this.
Back in ancient Roman times Archery was seen as a coward's weapon but in a lot of his labours he's seen using it to finish his tasks.
Why is that?

[Anonymous No.14728104]

>>14727905
nigga just do it all over again, you aint gotta read shit.

[Simon Magus !!B6w9tJAyfF8 No.14728111]

>>14727846
They preserved a lot of very outwardly pagan writings desu, most of what they destroyed were works of other Christian sects declared heretical

[Anonymous No.14728220]

>>14727816
the reason we don’t have most classical literature is because monks either burned it or scribbled psalms over it

[Anonymous No.14728519]

>>14727813

[Anonymous No.14728528]

>>14727813
Religious scholars of Islam and Christianity unironically saved just about everything we have today from pre-med European literature, but due to a couple of book burning savages who claimed to be part of two of the biggest religions in the world justifies the claim that they indeed destroyed most of classical literature.

[Anonymous No.14728544]

>mfw i'll never read the entire prometheus trilogy

[Anonymous No.14728572]

>>14727813
Not monks, monks were based weebs. The destruction was mostly by illiterate crowds whipped up in to frenzy by the ancient equivalent of some other generic Non-Denom baptist street preacher you see harassing people on youtube.

[Anonymous No.14728625]

>>14727723
I bet most of it was shit.

[Anonymous No.14728629]

>>14728220
Name an example of a classic work lost due to monks scribbling psalms over. Have any psalters been found with lost classical texts underneath the lettering?

[Anonymous No.14728894]

>>14728629
Not that anon, but that's called a palimpsest.

[Anonymous No.14728897]

>tfw you'll never know the end of the Achilleid

[Anonymous No.14728977]

>>14728528
>Religious scholars of Islam
lol