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Alright niggers I'm trying to learn everything I can about ancient civilizations and humanities through olden works of literature, this is what I have read so far

Illiad
Odyssey
Arabian Nights
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Tao te Ching
Bhagavad Gita

Here's my backlog
Divine Comedy
Ramayana
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Pillow Book
Book of Five Rings
Faust
Mahabharata
Beowulf
The Prince
Art of War
Gilgamesh
Aeneid
Paradise Lost
Kalevala
Mountain Wreath
Journey to the West
Dream of the Red Chamber
Water Margin
Analects
Tale of Genji
Tale of the Heike
Song of El Cid
Theogyny
Works and Days
Metamorphoses
Song of Roland
Niblungenlied
Sagas of the Icelanders
Popol Vuh
Prose-Edda and Poetic Edda
Upanishads
Works of Plato
Works of Artistotle
120 Days of Sodom
Digenes Akritas

dunno how I'm gonna find half of this shit, either download it or buy the ebooks if I can't find it in a store or library. Anything else you folks can recommend?

>> No.4051257

>Ancient civilizations
>Book of Five Rings

What? FTFY

>> No.4051280

Something different:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/60057658/Biag-Ni-Lamang-Pedro-Bukaneg-Full-Story-English

>> No.4051332

>>4051237
you may like some historical novels like. the tale of sinueh

>> No.4051335

Do you know what "ancient" means?

>> No.4051353

>>4051335
older than right now

>> No.4051372

>>4051237
>Paradise Lost (17th century), Song of El Song (between 1190-1207 ad), and The Song of Roland (12th century), Beowulf (975-1025), Faust (1808), The Prince (1532), Book of Five Rings (1645)
>Ancient

You are either retarded or have a very loose definition of the word "ancient".

>> No.4051376

>>4051372
Random "and". Jesus Christ. Can you tell I'm mad? 10/10, OP.

>> No.4051379

>Of or in time long past, especially before the end of the Western Roman Empire a.d. 476: ancient history.

>> No.4051381

>>4051353
See
>>4051379

>> No.4051406

>>4051372
Missed the Divine Comedy and Grimm's Fairy Tales, neither of which are ancient.

>> No.4051413

Not written that long ago, but see Flaubert's Salammbô for a top-notch reconstruction of Carthage between the two first punic wars. The nigger spent 6 years researching his shit.

>> No.4052484

>>4051372
wow people are really autistic on this board

if it makes you feel better how about i just call it classical literature instead? I just wanted to read stuff related to the folklore of different cultures I guess.

>> No.4052491

>>4051237
Better off just reading a shit ton of history, anything you can get your eyes on

>> No.4052494

>>4051237
Stick with it OP. You have a good list.

Also, read into Alchemy and Hermeticism. They are the true foundation of all religion, and if you understand them it will blow your fucking mind with how much freedom you have.

Feel free to ignore this post if you'd rather just have a mediocre time and not really become who you want to be.

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>>4052494
I'll look into it, sounds cool.