Where to go after the greeks?
Parlay with Polybius
Romans, and then Back to the Romans Part 2: Renaissance.
Ancient Greeks (750 - 490 B.C.) --> Classical Greeks (490 - 323 B.C) --> Hellenize Greeks (323 - 146 B.C) -- > Romans and Romanized Greeks (254 B.C. - 18 A.D.) -- > Silver Age Latin (18 A.D - 180 AD) + Early Christian Writers (45 - 325 A.D) --> Christianize Rome (306 - 476) --> Middle Ages (476 - 1321) --> Renaissance --> Fuck all
>>7567763
should've started with the mesopotamians
>>7567763
The Akkadians. Literally anticipated existentialism in 2000 BC
>"Servant, obey me."
>Yes my lord, yes.
>"I will do something helpful for my country."
>Do it, my lord, do it. The man who does something helpful for his country -- his helpful deed wins him the favor of Marduk.
>"No servant, I will not do something helpful for my country."
>Do it not, my lord, do it not. Climb the mounds of ancient ruins and walk about: look at the skulls of men; who among them is an evildoer, who a public benefactor?
>"Servant. obey me."
>Yes my lord, yes.
>"Now, what is good?"
>To break my neck, to break your neck, and to throw the corpses into the river -- that is good. Who is tall enough to ascend to heaven? Who is broad enough to embrace the earth?
>"No servant, I shall kill you and send you ahead of me."
>Would my lord wish to live even three days without his servant?
- From "A Dialogue Between Master and Servant"
>>7568031
boy is that edgy. ecclesiastes is still better though.
>>7567763
Back to the greeks.
