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The Big Three Anonymous Sat Jun 10 11:33:50 2023 No.22131480 [Reply] [Original]

Who did it best?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 11:42:08 2023 No.22131500 >>22131480 being born greek allowed me to read the original text of the history of the peloponnesian war All of you lived in mud huts and ate roots then

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 11:46:08 2023 No.22131507 >>22131500 So?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 11:47:41 2023 No.22131510 >>22131480 Leopold von Ranke.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 11:54:37 2023 No.22131529 >>22131510 We're talking historians not modernist trannies

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 11:57:49 2023 No.22131539 >>22131500 Your Slavic ancestors did literally the same.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 12:12:55 2023 No.22131569 >>22131500 >All of you lived in mud huts and ate roots then But Thucydides shows how Greeks, particularly Athenian's were barbaric shits

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 12:23:22 2023 No.22131593 >>22131569 Not really, stop being a bitter leftshit cunt.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 12:24:03 2023 No.22131595 >>22131500 And yet, nowadays it is the reverse. Descartes notes how as advanced as the ancients were, Peppus and Diophantus would still be unable to complete basic algebra.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 12:27:13 2023 No.22131600 >>22131595 Don't you need to dilate and send your kids to trany hour, westoid?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 12:50:54 2023 No.22131659 >>22131600 how the FUCK did you know i was a tranny lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 13:58:49 2023 No.22131820 Thucydides is the best in terms of accuracy and objective history Herodotus is the best read

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 14:03:25 2023 No.22131829 File: 55 KB, 564x327, C966FB75-76BA-4D72-A5CF-E9D86635D719.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22131500

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 14:10:56 2023 No.22131856 >>22131820 >Herodotus is the best read >t. never read based Eusebius

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 14:16:57 2023 No.22131872 >>22131480 Haven't read Eusebias Herodotus is the best between him and Thucydides though

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 14:17:35 2023 No.22131874 Xenophon

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 14:18:23 2023 No.22131876 >>22131820 >objective history He didn't finish his book though. Xenophon had to

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 14:22:45 2023 No.22131883 >>22131820 Entry level opinion. How'd you enjoy CIV I first year of community college?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 14:59:46 2023 No.22131953 >>22131600 >>22131659 The West has truly fallen

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 15:36:26 2023 No.22132026 >>22131872 You'll like Eusebius, he's like Herodotus. Very easy and fun read. Don't forget he was Greek too so it's not all that different.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 15:42:34 2023 No.22132044 Plutarch

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 15:43:48 2023 No.22132048 >>22131500 Do modern Greeks actually pretend they are related to the ancient Greek civilizations lmao. Modern Greece is barely white and is basically a mixture of turks and slavs

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 16:00:44 2023 No.22132091 >>22132048 Modern Greece is whiter than before. Anyway don't derail the thread you fuck face.

Anonymous Sat Jun 10 16:07:23 2023 No.22132105

>>22132048
>Do modern Greeks actually pretend they are related to the ancient Greek civilizations lmao.
They are genetically, culturally, and linguistically related, so they're the same. There's never been a genetic shift on that territory, it's the same people.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 16:08:36 2023 No.22132111 >>22131500 >unironic WE WUZ Dude, fucking stop. It's not 2000 years ago. It's right now, and right now Greece is a joke.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 16:15:07 2023 No.22132137 >>22131500 Υποτιμημένο

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 16:23:47 2023 No.22132165 >>22131600 It’ll happen to you too, brownoid

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 19:39:22 2023 No.22132895 >>22131500 Sounds like a great time to me

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 20:02:17 2023 No.22132963 >>22131829 s-... sneed?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 20:15:34 2023 No.22133007 File: 92 KB, 450x538, Edward_Emily_Gibbon (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] mogs

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 21:47:56 2023 No.22133331 >>22131480 Hesiod. History was a dumb reddit-tier idea.

Anonymous Sat Jun 10 22:17:38 2023 No.22133402

>>22133331
Kek based. I'm not convinced at all and the whole history enterprise either. At least based Eusebius wrote history to promote his sect and explain how they won and btfo everyone but now you get "historians" who just want to present facts. What fucking for?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 22:48:22 2023 No.22133474 >>22133331 /thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 10 23:25:37 2023 No.22133588 >>22131500 you read a modern greek translation

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 05:44:03 2023 No.22134502 >>22132048 >>22132105 call them Romans

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 05:45:36 2023 No.22134505 >>22131500 You wuz kaingz, mayne.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 07:25:57 2023 No.22134731 >>22131480 one of these is not like the others christcucks

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 07:28:52 2023 No.22134739 >>22131500 >you lived in mud huts >lived >past tense Yeah, least our economy isn't in the sink that we have to beg british tourists to come to our shitty island because we're cheaper than spain.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 13:32:26 2023 No.22135528 >>22134739 >le self hating greek Go to your beloved west cunt

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 18:25:02 2023 No.22136260 >implying anyone on this board read all 3

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 18:26:20 2023 No.22136264 >>22131500 merhaba

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 18:27:21 2023 No.22136267 >>22135528 reading comprehension

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 18:32:40 2023 No.22136281 >>22131500 >All of you lived in mud huts and ate roots then I've literally never lived in a mud hut.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 11 18:38:54 2023 No.22136301 >>22133331 Unironically this. Am I supposed to be interested in some autistic man's stamp collecting?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 12 01:47:53 2023 No.22137633 >>22132048 >Ancient Greeks were white Jesus Christ. The equivalent of black burgers claiming Egyptians were Black

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 12 12:04:24 2023 No.22138764 >>22137633 White means European descent in that context

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 12 17:46:44 2023 No.22139653 >>22138764 Are castizos white?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 12 18:29:23 2023 No.22139793 >>22132048 What would you know, fat american philistine?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 12 18:48:57 2023 No.22139838 File: 122 KB, 1024x988, historians-then-and-now.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 12 19:52:34 2023 No.22140064 >>22139838 And the ancients are still much closer to the truth

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 12 20:06:54 2023 No.22140113 >>22140064 Time travelers from the future are much closer to the truth than the ancients. Checkmate

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