>starting with the Greeks >missing out on one of the greatest

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2015-12-23 08:39:31 Post No. 7496179
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 08:39:31 Post No. 7496179 [Report]

>starting with the Greeks
>missing out on one of the greatest written works in the history of man
Why would you do this to yourself?

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 08:51:34 Post No.7496192
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 08:51:34 Post No.7496192 [Report]

Gilgamesh is pretty cool.

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 09:48:02 Post No.7496257
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 09:48:02 Post No.7496257 [Report]

>>7496179
I'm going to finish the greeks, then go back to the Mesopotamians.

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 09:51:49 Post No.7496262
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 09:51:49 Post No.7496262 [Report]

But that mans having too learn Mesopotamian for practically one work. At least with Greek i have a decent amount to work with.

>reading in translation

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 13:56:10 Post No.7496529
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 13:56:10 Post No.7496529 [Report]

>>7496262
>Mesopotamian

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 15:34:52 Post No.7496720
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 15:34:52 Post No.7496720 [Report]

Get it on with Gilgamesh

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 15:40:23 Post No.7496731
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>reading anything not written by dead white males

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 15:42:37 Post No.7496737
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 15:42:37 Post No.7496737 [Report]

>>7496179
The other stuff didn't lead to anything. Only the Greeks had a lasting influence. Prove me wrong OP

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 16:40:29 Post No.7496898
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 16:40:29 Post No.7496898 [Report]

just like this thread

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 17:14:04 Post No.7496973
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 17:14:04 Post No.7496973 [Report]

>>7496731
The Greeks were black.

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 17:22:53 Post No.7496989
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 17:22:53 Post No.7496989 [Report]

>>7496731
This
>>7496973
>we wuz philosophers and shieet

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Anonymous 2015-12-24 00:46:59 Post No.7498249
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>>7496179
>Enkidou on his deathbed
>Gilgamesh's final realization
Did anyone else cry?

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Anonymous 2015-12-24 01:40:14 Post No.7498433
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Anonymous 2015-12-24 01:40:14 Post No.7498433 [Report]

>>7496731
>>7496989
Bloom included Gilgamesh in his summary of the Western canon
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/literature/bloom/complete.html

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Anonymous 2015-12-24 01:43:52 Post No.7498449
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Anonymous 2015-12-24 01:43:52 Post No.7498449 [Report]

>>7496737
>Implying The Epic of Gilgamesh didn't influence the Jews and their bible

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Anonymous 2015-12-24 02:19:32 Post No.7498556
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Anonymous 2015-12-24 02:19:32 Post No.7498556 [Report]

Fun fact: there are about one million cuneiform tablets found. We have five badly damaged copies of the epic of Gilgamesh and literally thousands of treatises on the correct interpretation of the livers of sacrified sheep. Plebs gonna pleb since 3000 BC, I guess.