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6973632 No.6973632 [Reply] [Original]

Why haven't you started with the Ancient Mesopotamians?

>Wrote shit down on clay tablets that live forever
>500,000-2,000,000 tablets discovered
>Only 100,000 have been published or even read

>> No.6973683

I bet you guys haven't even read Gilgamesh

>> No.6973693

I know OP you're right but wouldn't a lot of those tablets be ancient paperwork about land boundaries and grain taxes etc etc? I do want to read Gilgamesh I've heard it's a great bro adventure.

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6973704

>>6973693

>tfw someone claims to appreciate Mesopotamian discourse.

>tfw that someone refuses to spend decades teasing out the most sublime linguistic and stylistic mysteries by poring over land boundaries and grain tax tablets.

>> No.6973708

>>6973693
Well we don't know what they are because nobody's ever read them since ancient times.

>> No.6973711

>>6973632
Did they say anything about how to exist

>> No.6973713

>>6973683
Joke's on you I read that during one of /lit's regular book clubs a couple years ago.

>>6973632
Who's this fresh Gilgamesh ?

>> No.6973721

>>6973632
>99,990 of those 100,000 are accounting records

>> No.6973760

>>6973721
>Not reading Bronze Age tax reforms

Could you be more of a plebeian?

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6973778

>we will never have anything but fragmentary attestations of bronze age civilizations
>all those languages lost forever that will never be read or spoken again

>> No.6973783

because it isn't as relevant to the western canon

>> No.6973794

You could try searching on amazon you lazy faggot

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199538360/

>> No.6973963

>>6973783
>Gilgamesh
>inspired archetypes that are essential to the progression of the Old Testament and many other early Western literatures
mmhmm

>> No.6974390

>>6973794
Idiot

>> No.6974437

>>6973632
I've read Gilgamesh and Inanna. What else do you want from me?

>> No.6974454

>>6974437
>no Enuma Elish