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What /his/ books are you reading?
What /his/ books do you recommend?
History and other humanities both welcome, we're all brothers here.
I'm currently reading the Landmark Herodotus, a big fat brick of the Histories with annotations from historians, translators and geographers, crammed full of maps and with a good inch of appendices explaining the historical context of every facet of what Herodotus talks about, along with his inaccuracies. Apparently there are equivalent editions of Thucydides and Xenophon as well.
Along with this, I recommend...
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I've just ordered Polybius' Histories (Oxford World's Classics Edition) and I'll soon order Plutarch's Lives (Complete Modern Library Edition). Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War (Oxford World's Classics Edition) arrived yesterday.
>>317553
Nice! Are you doing the Greek history train too?
Also, how are those Oxford editions? I've got a copy of Tacitus I haven't yet opened.
I haven't read much history but Anthony Everitt's Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician was excellent
This actually exists, I have only one question.
Explain this.
>Silver chariot vs Heavy weather
They symbolise sloth?
>>317532
the knight in the bottom legs has dragon legs ffs, and you talk to me of snails? nigga snells tha lass thing i got on ma mindz
What should be done about sociopaths?
>>317349
If they break the law, they are punished. This already happens and is all there needs to be done.
if its something that can by objectively proven then they should be corrected permanently
>>317349
Put them in high levels of government
>>317258
There would still be a pagan roman empire.
It would be exactly the way it was 2000 years ago.
>>317258
Rome was a period of stagnation, so it would inevitably fell at some point. Some neighbor would finally catch up and fucked them.
>tfw no French-speaking Egypt ruled by the Napoleon dynasty
>tfw you will never live in Paris during the Century of Enlightenment
Give me your feels, /his/
>>317235
>tfw not russian in the nineteenth century
>tfw can't talk with doestoyevsky
>tfw can't argue with lenin et. Al
>>317235
Egypt until the 1950s was patrician as fuck.
>>317235
>you will never be a wealthy patrician in Ancient Rome, fucking your slaves and qt wife, watching gladiator fights in day and drinking and attending orgies at night
>Sic semper tyrannis!
how do you respond?
>>317219
It's treason then.
Hand up don't shoot
>>317219
Something like "Arghhh!" and then I fall over because I've been shot to death by a filthy Confederate traitor.
What was life like in Francoist Spain?
>>317191
miserable in the 1940s. stable in the 50s, better in the 60s and 70s with industrialization, terrific all the way through if you were military, clergy, landowner or industrialist
>>317191
Better.
a fascist hell
Russia pre-862
What the fuck was it?
I can't find anything more than some basic shit on Wikipedia that tldr says "there were Slavic tribes somewhere here"
Does anyone have any in depth/detailed resources on what was in Russia before 862 (start of Kievan Rus), stuff like states, ethnicities, music, architecture, history ( kings and wars and borders and etc)
>>317111
The Cambridge History of Russia, Volume 1: From Early Rus’ to 1689
free download:
http://bookzz.org/book/989365/7c30f0
description on linked page:
>This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and deals with political,...
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>>317120
It says this volume covers from Kievan Rus onwards.
But I want to know what happened BEFORE the Kievan Rus was founded
When did the Mesopotamian culture disappear? It seemed still flourishing during Alexander's conquest and was still distinct during the rule of Antioch III.
Who wrecked it? Late Seleucids? Parthians? Sassanians? Or maybe Arabs?
USA
Alexander's rape train
Muhammad's rape train
It sort of just slowly died out after Alexander's conquest under the Seleucids and Parthians. It was long dead by the Arab conquest.
If anyone killed it, it was Alexander. It didn't suddenly end under his reign, but he was the one who set in motion the process of Hellenization that ultimately ended Mesopotamian civilization.
Hey guys, just a discussion on all that is Utilitarian. What is the best version of it, why it fails, why it succeeds,and worst misunderstanding of it you've come across. Remember the basis of all utilitarianism
Principle of utility: The greatest happiness for the greatest number. (An essay on the principles of Govt Jb preistley).
How would you describe happiness?
Utilitarianism is hedonism.
>>317093
I mean you can only sling that mud at Bentham because his the only one who defined happiness as pleasure. I would argue that Bentham's theory is more refined then simply hedonism, he even has a calculus. Do you like the theory or nah?
>>317098
For economics, there is no alternative to utilitarianism. And in public consciousness, utilitarianism won. This has positive points and negative points.
Thoughts on his philosophy?
Pretty good on the lower levels because his dayjob is "le science man" (think Dicky Dawkins exploring rather than dimissing other fields). But on the higher levels he's committed to western academia dogma, utilitarianism, humanitarianism, etc.
I think his age shows too. For example many of his readings on philosophy or music are clearly straight from outdated textbooks/translations.
The fact that so many books still name the Scaruffi as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" philosopher ever only tells you how far philosophy still is from becoming a serious art. Scientists have long recognized that the greatest scientists of all times are Issac Newton and Albert Einstein, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Historians rank the highly controversial Herodotus over historians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Philosophers are still blinded by commercial success....
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>>317135
He is a cultural historian, not a philosopher.
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What is Jerusalem worth?
Everything
>>317056
$3.50
Nothing. It's the most overrated place on the Earth.
I'm tired of the memes and conjecture.
Were the Egyptians more like blacks, arabs, or whites?
Is there ANY legitimate research or proof that they were black in existence that hasn't been stifled by the dogmatic anti-race defining scientific community?
They were a splinter group of proto-Bedouins
/thread
We have this huge thread yesterday.
They weren't black.
They weren't white
They weren't Arabs.
They were of the group that Arabs, Berbers and semites belong to belong to, before they splintered off. The modern Egyptian population is 90% the same as the ancient population according to genetics, history and language.
What led Prussia to success in the Franco-Austrian war and the Franco-Prussian war? I know Bismark controlled the diplomacy but who controlled the army?
>>316935
>What led Prussia to success in the Franco-Austrian war
Staying home and reading a book.
Better railways
Better Mobilisation
Actually having a pre thought out plan of attack and defensive
Much better Artillery
A brilliant new general staff system
Better field tactics
A general understanding of the way warfare had changed in the last 20 years
Bismarck trolling the French into silly angry moves
>>316935
Based Moltke commanded the army.
They won because of superior technology and drilling, Prussia had the most modern military in Europe.
>tfw we will never have another president like Lincoln, FDR, Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Truman, Wilson, Jackson, or Eisenhower
>tfw you realize the last TEN presidents have not come anywhere close to any of these guys
>>316720
Heard you talkin shit like I wouldn't find out.
>>316720
You sure about that?
>>316758
lmao yeah i think so
