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Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:26:15 2020 No.16671909 [Reply] [Original]

if /lit/ could save one piece of ancient literature that we have unfortunately lost, what would it be? Personally I would save some of the other poems that were part of the Epic Cycle; I need more greek epics in my life

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:38:12 2020 No.16672000 >>16671909 Plutarch's Life of Epaminondas second after Sappho's lyrics

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:38:52 2020 No.16672005 The lost Plato dialogue(s)

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:40:38 2020 No.16672013 >>16671909 >could The Democritus writings

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:49:52 2020 No.16672068 >>16671909 Aristotle's dialogues probably

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:52:37 2020 No.16672083 Anything Greek that was lost unto history.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:08:46 2020 No.16672202 >>16672083 this

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:13:17 2020 No.16672242 >>16671909 I think Diogenes had something like 10 books. One of those would be killer. Dude was probably a schizo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:21:53 2020 No.16672323 aeschylis's other two prometheus plays.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:31:42 2020 No.16672422 Suetonius's Lives of Famous Whores

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:32:35 2020 No.16672430 >>16672323 Supreme taste.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:20:25 2020 No.16674077 >>16671909 The book(s) that the Shahnameh is based on

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:26:35 2020 No.16674127 Damascius's Logoi Paradoxoi or Plethon's Nomoi

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:27:07 2020 No.16674132 The missing books of Tacitus' Annales

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:28:03 2020 No.16674138 I wonder if I can compose an epic poem in a disabled bathroom stall

Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:28:32 2020 No.16674142

>>16671909
>if /lit/ could save one piece of ancient literature that we have unfortunately lost, what would it be?
the original manuscripts of the old testament, if not everything just Genesis
theres a very good reason for that that goes beyond literature

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:32:36 2020 No.16674169 >>16671909 Heracleitus' works and especially Democritus' works who is said to have written over 70 titles concerning all different subjects.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 21:33:21 2020 No.16674179 The other parts of Prometheus Bound

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 22:52:47 2020 No.16674601 >>16671909 all the development porn that was on my 120MB amiga hd that died in 1998. the one Orlock burned in half with a portable oxy torch at Kolreth's party

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:37:43 2020 No.16676137 >>16672323 Based

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:40:32 2020 No.16676143 >>16674142 based

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:45:08 2020 No.16676153

>>16672068
The only correct answer. For as much as I love ancient literature, Aristotle was one of the smartest people alive in the history of humanity, so one book by him would have way more impact than anything else.

>>16672005
We have all of them except those he did not finish writing. We have so many, in fact, that some of them are probably not even by Plato. Read more.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 06:33:57 2020 No.16676307

>>16676153
just because there are a lot of texts with the author pretending to be plato doesnt mean there arent probablt several dialogues that were lost to history.
Plato was a popular guy you know, making him the author of your text would lend it more credibility.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:43:31 2020 No.16676553 >>16676153 i was told that almost all of the dialogues were not actually Plato's words but those of his students or later followers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:49:30 2020 No.16676577 >>16671909 On Nature by Zeno of Citium I wanna know what OG Stoicism was actually about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:52:54 2020 No.16676596 >>16671909 The rest of Aristotle's Poetics.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:53:10 2020 No.16676597 >>16674142 why?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:53:15 2020 No.16676598 >>16676153 >Philosophy crap Kys

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:54:18 2020 No.16676602 Shakespeare’s History of Cardenio

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:55:29 2020 No.16676608
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>>16672005
>The lost Plato dialogue(s)
Never happened. Every referenced work by Plato in antiquity still exists. Nor are there any unfinished dialogues.
>Plato is better preserved than the bible since some biblical books mentioned in the bible don't exist.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:00:53 2020 No.16676628 A toss between Parmenides', Empedocles', or Heraclitus'. Or Damascius' One Thousand & One Nights, supposedly super poetic, but pagan so the christcucks couldn't have that. Imagine Aesop but better.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:00:55 2020 No.16676629 >>16676608 >some biblical books mentioned in the bible don't exist like what?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:04:20 2020 No.16676646 Zeno of Citium, so Stoics don't have to read that bro dude's diary anymore.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:05:23 2020 No.16676655 Sumerian grain ledgers

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:05:28 2020 No.16676657 >>16676629 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-canonical_books_referenced_in_the_Bible Like Acts of Solomon

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:14:18 2020 No.16676699 >>16676657 interesting, thanks Anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 11:18:58 2020 No.16677646 bump

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 11:25:01 2020 No.16677681
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Callimachus' Aetia. It was basically a poetic compendium of rarities and weird customs and rites from all around the world, like the ancient equivalent of pic related.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 11:26:12 2020 No.16677691 >>16671909 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 11:30:14 2020 No.16677712 Jane Austens letters that were burned

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 11:31:39 2020 No.16677725 >>16677712 why

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 11:33:33 2020 No.16677735 >>16671909 If it hasnt been said already, then all works of Aristotle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 14:11:13 2020 No.16678749 >>16671909 The rest of codex regius or my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 14:26:51 2020 No.16678853 >>16678749 cringe

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 14:52:30 2020 No.16679023

The original text of Manetho’s ‘Aegyptiaca’

Or, the works of Sanchuniathon.
( Sanchoniatho the Berytian )
> Eusebius quotes neo-Platonist writer Porphyry as stating that Sanchuniathon of Berytus (Beirut) wrote the truest history because he obtained records from Hierombalus priest of Ieuo, that Sanchuniathon dedicated his history to Abibalus (Abibaal) king of Berytus, and that it was approved by the king and other investigators, the date of this writing being before the Trojan War[5] (around 1200 BC) approaching close to the time of Moses,
> Sanchuniathon claims to have based his work on "collections of secret writings of the Ammouneis[9] discovered in the shrines", sacred lore deciphered from mystic inscriptions on the pillars which stood in the Phoenician temples,[6] lore which exposed the truth—later covered up by allegories and myths—that the gods were originally human beings who came to be worshipped after their deaths and that the Phoenicians had taken what were originally names of their kings and applied them to elements of the cosmos (compare euhemerism), worshipping forces of nature and the sun, moon, and stars. Eusebius cites Sanchuniathon in his attempt to discredit pagan religion based on such foundations.
Sanchuniathon Exact history is questioned, like Manetho
(both might not be as old as is claimed), but other very old translated texts seem to support some of Sanchuniathon‘s supposed claims in what of his work has survived.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 14:53:32 2020 No.16679033 >>16672013 >>16674169 based!

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 15:01:27 2020 No.16679094 Any work of the Epic Cycle

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 15:03:48 2020 No.16679107 >>16679094 >Any work of the Epic Cycle based

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 15:06:50 2020 No.16679130 >>16672000 >Plutarch's Life of Epaminondas this and Ephorus' Histories

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 15:21:38 2020 No.16679203 what can we expect about herculaneum library?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 17:58:30 2020 No.16680328 Pytheas of Massalia's periplus describing his voyage to Britain and Thule, the first Greek to go beyond the Pillars of Hercules and explore the Atlantic coastline, Great Britain, and Baltic. What a badass, who doesn't love a good exploration tale?

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