What went wrong /his/?
>mindblowingly advanced maths (Archimedes almost invented Calculus)
>built machines and analog computers (Antikythera mechanism)
>most impressive realistic sculpting in history (pic related)
>society of many philosophical viewpoints
>religious freedom
>sexual freedom, full tolerance of homosexuality
>Olympic games
>refined naval and land warfare
>architecture, science, politics and so much more
And this is what happened to it:
>Invaded by innumerate Romans
>Converted by intolerant Christians
>>591357
Antikythera mechanism
There wasn't a full tolerance of homosexuality at all.
>>591365
A method for calculating pi by Archimedes.
>>591357
Not to mention, a full appreciation of the tragedy of life, and an amazing strength in the face of that tragedy.
Whereas faggots today can't even get out of the house, the Greeks basically knew life was death and still built cool shit.
>>591370
>reading The Symposium, the greatest work by the greatest philosophical mind, Plato
>eager for a great discussion of epistemology or ethics
>instead read 50 pages discuss the nuances of fucking boys
>>591375
Archimedes' screw
>>591370
It was you dumb bigot.
socrates happened
>>591388
The colossus of Rhodes.
>>591394
The temple of Artemis.
>>591412
Laocoon and His Sons.
>>591388
Wasn't sexuality in ancient greece more concerned with who was topping and who was bottoming? Like, there wasn't "full" tolerance of homosexuality, because it was seen as unseemly to get fucked, but totally fine and manly to fuck someone of either gender.
On topic, though, I believe what happened to Greece was simply a matter of time. After enjoying hegemony over the region for hundreds of years, successfully beating back Persia, and allowing someone like Alexander to exist, Greece sank into political and cultural stagnation, while other powers carried on the torch. It's a huge testament to Greek culture that they managed to have the effect on their successors that they did.
>>591429
The Seikilos epitaph, oldest known musical composition.
>>591357
The Spartans chimped out
>>591357
Immigrants.
>>591436
Euclids Elements, the most important maths book for 2000 years.
>>591431
>Wasn't sexuality in ancient greece more concerned with who was topping and who was bottoming?
Yes and no. They usually had interfemoral sex in case of pederasty. However, when you spent so much time kissing men/boys, who says you wouldn't be willing to go the extra distance? Besides, they practiced heterosexual anal. And Lesbianism was also socially accepted.
>>591388
Being a bottom was looked down upon. And there was no concept of homosexuality anyway, there were no gay marriages etc.
>>591487
The Elgin Marbles.
>>591501
>And there was no concept of homosexuality anyway
Because they were progressive even beyond that. They did what was fun, without the need to justify it via a label. We 21st century western Europeans are even now barely emanicipated from the church's concept of marriage and monogamy. At the current rate, we will reach the level of consciousness in Ancient Greece maybe in 2050.
>>591528
I disagree with how much your romanticising the Greeks, but being a greekaboo myself I must ask you: What is your opinion on Alcibiades? B)
>>591436
I just want to explain in case you people didn't get it:
The Ancient Greeks had already invented a way to compose music and write it down. It wasn't invented in the 17th century.
>>591528
You fucking tard, they just didn't go around fucking each other, they mostly fucked young men/boys. It was not some sorta "Marriage" thing. The Greeks highly revered the institution of marriage, possibly more so then we do today (It was legal in athens to kill a man if you walked in on him fucking your wife), More over, prostitutes were looked down upon. Pericles wife was a prostitute, and non-citizen of Athens, and that tainted the man himself. Finally we have no fucking clue what the antikythera mechanism was even used for, and even if it was a computer as you say, the math did not exist to support the programming languages that would be needed to operate the more complex machines.
>>591541
No one has debated the fact that music has been composed and written down for centuries, it's just the fact that the records were usually lost.
>>591548
His son by her wasn't a citizen as well. He was only made a citizen at his death (IIRC) due to his standing in Athens.
>>591537
>Alcibiades
No opinion desu. I have only read the first part of the Peloponnesian war, I don't recall him being mentioned too much. Apparently he was for the Sicilian Expedition which was American-level retarded and ended in disaster.
>>591548
>analog computer
>programming languages
kill yourself now.
> was even used for
You realize that this doesn't diminish the marvel of such a construction? If anything it enhances it.
I suggest you get some education before trying to "share your opinion" again. Thank you!
>>591560
The Expedition would have worked but mainly got fucked over by Nicias' attempts to stop it.
In order to try and deter the Athenians, he made out they'd need a much larger force than they needed in order to succeed. They took him sincerely and made their fleet much larger than it should have been, and made a low risk expedition into a high risk one. He also forgot to bring cavalry, which messed up the Athenian's chances of destroying the Syracusan army (they defeated it in a Hoplite battle, but had no cavalry to succesfully pursue them).
Alcibiades was a cheeky lad, but he was a LAD.
>>591537
Not that anon, but
>he wuz a good stratigo
>he dindu nothin
>>591548
I don't think you understand what a computer is.
>>591595
>he made out they'd need a much larger force than they needed in order to succeed
That's always a double edged sword. Nobody wants to send a small expedition and then have them all die because they were too small. In truth, the Spartans, Syracusans and allies had a pretty sizable army. It was hostile land, and far away from Athens. The Athenians went because they believed "hurr durr we so strong" and got wrecked. Instead they should've stayed back and used their army in the Aegean theater. Nicias was right.
>>591628
But if they sent an expedition that was small and it failed, it wouldn't be that damaging to Athens -- due to Nicias trying to stop it, they ended sending way to big a fleet, and losing.
Also, the Spartans weren't interested in attacking Athens that much at the time -- the first envoys the Syracusans sent to Sparta for military aid only got envoys giving motivation back.
And the Athenians mainly went out of fear of the Syracusans sending aid to the Peloponnesian once they'd taken Sicily.
Tbh they were many points in the war when things could have got sorted out, but both sides made fuck ups in some way.
Greek naval warfare.
>>591643
Going for a bath now lads btw
If any browsers are interested in the Peloponnesian War, read Thucydides' book, and Kagan's book for introduction.
>>591648
Literally Greek gay porn.
>>591652
Better pic. Gay orgy.
>>591643
>it wouldn't be that damaging to Athens
Well, the Athenians at that time were pretty conceited cunts, I don't think they expected to lose - ever. At least not against some superstitious Lacedaemonian blockheads who couldn't form a sentence.
The Spartans never could have attacked Athens. It was fortified and had a superior fleet.
>And the Athenians mainly went out of fear of the Syracusans sending aid to the Peloponnesian once they'd taken Sicily.
The Athenians were winning the war, no help from Sicily could've changed that. They should've just set back and tightened their grip, and soon they'd have the idle Spartans strangled.
The Athenians (and Alcibiades especially) were greedy. They wanted a quick victory, which is why the lost Mantinea. They had great advantages, a stronger fleet, money and smarts. But they couldn't force the issue, because the Spartans were just much better warriors.
>>591874
To be honest peace could have been gained a lot earlier if it wasn't for the Eternal Corinthian.
>>591888
Peace was impossible. All these city states were gunning for the top position.
It culminated with Alexander, but before him the Corinthians smashed the Spartans and were set up to conquer all that hellenic clay
Crazy /pol/(though I hate that place) tier speculation:
Maybe the ancient Greeks were just lucky that they had a founder population that was abnormally smart. Over time urbanization homogenized this unique population into a much more average people.
There is this strange sociological effect where "successful" populations in the intellectual and urban sense tend to have less children than poorer less elite populations around them. We see it today. The first world's native populations are pretty much all sub-replacement levels. While poor countries like Nigeria are exploding in population - in fact third world countries are the only reason the global population is growing at all. Within first world nations the most educated have the least children on average.
Though no one seems to know why this is and world leaders didn't seem to expect it or know how to counteract the effect there is reason to believe it might not be new. Augustus made laws for Roman women that encouraged them to have more than 3 children and criminalized not being married in an attempt to bolster the Roman aristocracy's population. The real end of Sparta was population decline in their true born citizens
>For Aristotle wrote in the Politics that under
one thousand Spartiates remained. This presumably describes the situation in the time
he was writing, the 330s or 320s.
>And in the year 244 the Spartiates numbered a maximum of 700 (Plut. Agis 5.6).
It's possible that a freak evolution accident created a population in the Aegean that had an abnormally high average IQ (or whatever). But after a period of success and expansion they fell into this demographic trap that others have fallen into as victims of their own success. Cities absorbed "barbarian" immigrants and promoted foreign slaves to keep economic numbers up until eventually the ancient Greeks had irrevocably changed like their own ship of Theseus.
>>591357
Built on the backs of slaves. Also, they were bloodthirsty sellout retards with no loyalty to anyone.
Christianity was the best way. Marrying Plato to Semitic philosophy. Primitive Christians embraced communism, complex nuance, and learning. They lived for each other and were the best orators of the ancient world.
Then Paul ruined everything. Debased what should have been a sincere society.
Oh well, such is life.
>>591657
>gay orgy
>gay
It's just a normal orgy m8
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>>591357
>mindblowingly advanced maths
>throws people off boats for discovering irrationals
>implying concepts without formalization would have any use at all in mathematics
>implying Euclid's and Archemdedes' havewaving concept of limits is somehow on the same level as Newton and Leibniz's work
>>591370
This is correct. The sex life of the ancients was ruled by many more taboos and rules than modern one, even pre-sexual revolution. "Homosexuality" certainly didn't exist, only homosexual relations did.
>>591431
I wouldn't say there was stagnation just yet. Progress in mathematics and technology went on until later Roman times in the east half of the empire.
>>591548
>Finally we have no fucking clue what the antikythera mechanism was even used for
I think the explanation that it was used for astrological and religious-calendrical purposes is pretty convincing.
>>593208
>throws people off boats for discovering irrationals
That's a legendary story about a specific cult, the Pythagoreans. Ancient Greece was intellectually diverse.
>implying concepts without formalization would have any use at all in mathematics
If there's something the Greeks were better at than their contemporaries, it was that. That's basically the reason why Muslims ended up preferring Greek over Indian material.
One thing I'll agree with OP about is that the Romans were innumerate though. Latin writers didn't seem to even (want to) understand the Greek mathematical and astronomical material much of the time.
The early Christians were also very suspicious of their pagan heritage as opposed to later ones and that attitude continued to exist in Byzantium where continuity was greater as opposed to Western Europe which experienced a renaissance via the translation of Greco-Arabic material.
>>593290
>If there's something the Greeks were better at than their contemporaries, it was that
The entirety of their knowledge was built upon discoveries of other cultures. The only impressive mathematics that came out of the Greeks was Euclid's complete formalization of geometry, which gave a way to clearly communicate mathematical ideas and which is instrumental in the development of mathematics as an abstract science.
>>593315
>The entirety of their knowledge was built upon discoveries of other cultures
That's only accurate if you say the same about medieval Islam and early modern Europe, i.e. it's very misleading.
I'm glad you agree otherwise.
PS. Otto Neugebauer and Carl Boyer should be required reading
>>591357
Women had little to no rights, not much different then Wahabist Saudis.
That is the elephant in the room, conservative folk knida sweep it under the rug. It's hard to admit shitskins in mesopotamia gave better rights to their woman than the european-white-rational greeks
>>593329
>That's only accurate if you say the same about medieval Islam and early modern Europe
And that's indeed what I'd say.
>>591357
>Greeks
>Tolerant
The Greeks were racist as fuck and didn't tolerate gays, they just didn't consider it to be gay if you're a giver and not a taker.
Also what happened was Christianity, not because it's intolerant, but because it's slave morality.
>>593333
Perhaps the Greeks were better than us this way.
>>593333
The Greek states weren't united, different states gave women different rights. Interestingly enough, the areas we associate with 'high culture' like Athens and Alexandria were always more repressive than Sparta or the tribal states up north.
>>592478
the other one is a guy
>>593346
How was Sparta not repressive?
Sparta practiced strict eugenics, you'd be forced into the strict military from youth, you could only meet with your wife in secret, you had to eat the same coarse bread and muck everyday, if you were ever a chicken you'd be ostracised -- and don't even get me started on the Helots, they used to have a time of the year when it was legal to hunt them down and kill them.
>>593208
The Greeks still discovered irrationals.
>comparing Euclid/Archimedes to Newton/Leibnitz
You do realize there is fucking more than 1850 years between them. 1850 FUCKING YEARS! 1850 fucking years of unsurpassed thought in mathematics! That is waaaay too fucking much, and expresses how much smarter the Greeks were to the Christians/Barbarians/Muslims/Idiots that came after them.
Daily reminder Greeks invented Fascism and Communism.
>>593290
>The sex life of the ancients was ruled by many more taboos
The sex life of the ancients was ruled by much less taboos than the 20th century.
>>593881
>comparing Euclid/Archimedes to Newton/Leibnitz
That's what the OP does you idiot. It's Newton's work that's known as "calculus".
>expresses how much smarter the Greeks were to the Christians/Barbarians/Muslims/Idiots that came after them.
They're all equally stupid you damn faggot, with the possible exception of Euclid.
>>591357
The point I want to make is, whatever your occupation or your passion is today, you could have done it in Ancient Greece as well. That is a huge statement!
>Mathematician, engineer, scientist, you could've done that in Ancient Greece
>Professional athlete, soldier, sailor, all of that existed
>Composer, playwright, poet, historian
>Philosopher, priest, politician - absolutely
>Homosexual, heterosexual, lesbian, whatever floats your boat
And Ancient Greece was the only society in the last 3000 years that allowed the same (or similar) possibilites as the society of today - the 21st century. Do you even fucking realize how mindblowing this fact is? That's not even true for the 1950s!
>>593908
>That's what the OP does you idiot. It's Newton's work that's known as "calculus".
I'm OP. I said "almost invented Calculus" not formalized. I'm a mathematician, I know what the difference is exactly.
>with the possible exception of Euclid
Whatever that is supposed to mean.
>>593962
That's bullshit.
>>591357
Macedon and Rome happened
>>593905
>Do you think Newton and Leibniz just had Calculus pop into their heads on day?
It actually builds on the Archimedean property. And yes, in the case of Newton it popped into his head one day. I'm unfamiliar with the history of Leibniz though.
>>593975
What is bullshit? Get fucked retard.
>>593967
>I'm a mathematician
Highly doubtful. What do you study?
>I know what the difference is exactly.
You don't. Calculus doen't become rigorous until Riemann and Cauchy. The concept of limits isn't the only thing Newton wrote about.
>>591376
I'd like to add to this that the poison of Christianity was mostly the teleology within it, which was already supported by the Socratic idiots
The Greeks knew that life has no specific direction and essentially goes in every direction it wants to go, without any guidance whatsoever. It's no accident that in the Greek Epics, the gods constantly bicker and fight each other, as they should. Unfortunately, the combined forces of Jesus and Socrates convinced them that the world is moving in one fixed direction, which is complete nonsense
>>591357
Let me just tell you OP, Greece was exactly tolerant of other cultures even inside of itself. With civil wars raging on every five minutes, like the Peloponnesian war, the war between Kerkira and Korinthos and a lot more. They called everyone was wasn't born in Greece a "barbarian", and considered them of no virtue. Of course with such diverse cultures residing in such a small space, it was almost an inevitability that wars would happen.
Also no mention of the fact that Herodotus, who basically wrote the first texts which can be considered historical, and Thucydides, who perfected the art of writing history?
>>593993
>everything that follows from a certain object must be credited to whoever the concept is named after
Yeah, and I suppose you think Descartes nearly invented vector algebra right? And that Hilbert nearly invented functional anaylsis? Goddamn retard.
>>593996
Do you think the average Greek could just become an Engineer or become a philosopher?
Most of the things you listed would only be available as careers to the tops of Greek society. Do you think an average farmer (which was the average citizen) could afford to learn mathematics?
Do you think a Spartan who was conscripted at birth had the opportunity to become a playwright?
Do you think a Helot could just move to Athens and pay a Sophist to teach him Philosophy?
And how were those things not available in the 50s? There were far more opportunities for the average guy to become a playwright back then due to education.
>>594006
>What do you study?
Pure maths.
>Calculus doen't become rigorous until Riemann and Cauchy.
Yes. Yet, the Calculus of infinitesimals was a formal system. Archimedes had ingenious ways of correctly calculating the volumes of geometrical objects - the same results that were "rigorously obtained" only with Weierstrass' Calculus. And Archimedes also had series.
>>594033
I never said that.
>>594038
I did not claim it was as accessible, it claimed it was possible. In the societies that were inbetween today and then, it was not possible. A qualitative difference, not a quantitative one.
>>594044
Every Analysis textbook starts with Archimedes. Where are the "medieval scholars"? Nowhere, because Christianity was a fuck-up.
Bamp for science and progress
>>594145
No, because Barbarians were a fuck-up
Germanics especially
Just because they happened to be Christians, doesn't mean that it's Christianity's fault for that
In the Eastern Roman Empire, there was still Roman thought and Science, even thought they were die-hard Christians.
>>594687
>and Science
What science? lmao
WE WUZ GREEK FIRE N SHIET
Byzaboos are cancer. Christianity and intellect don't go together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJ3sqkdCRE
>>594757
Russell was a hack and his history of philosophy was shit
Fuck off to Reddit
>>594760
>Russell was a hack
No, he was a mathematician.
>Fuck off to Reddit
Never been there. But I'm sure you'll find a subforum for christians there too.
>>591537
He really fucked up that party when he entered in Plato's symposium, it's like one of those board memes where a group of people are having an intelligent discussion but then someone jumps out of nowhere and everything goes down to shit
>>594794
|'m not even a christian ya fanny
There's no writing of Epicurus that says that ya poslost pancy
>>594835
doesn't matter if he said it or not, what matters is the content which i most surely agree with
>>591582
Theres no way, is that real? That's stunning
>>594038
Epictetus was a slave who became a master philosopher.
It was possible just as it is possible today, most people just didnt/wont do it for the fear of losing a comfortable life, for the fear of hunger etc.
>>595058
He also became a freedman, and secretary to an Emperor.
He also only got to study due to having permission from his owner.
>>595038
It's normal when you realize that Ancient Greece was stunning.
Pic related, they had already calculated the circumference of the earth.
>>594124
Yeah what field of pure math, you autistic fuck?
>Calculus of infinitesimals was a formal system.
It isn't. It's a number system. Now I can safely assume that you have no idea what you're talking about since you can't even tell the difference.
>Archimedes had ingenious ways of correctly calculating the volumes of geometrical objects
Yeah the same concept that Euclid used to find the area of the circle. Literally nothing new.
>the same results that were "rigorously obtained" only with Weierstrass' Calculus.
>Weierstrass' calculus
Holy shit are you just randomly name dropping now? Weierstrass proved some important theorems in analysis (such as continuity of limits of functions and convergence of Tayloer expansion) but he's never made any version of calculus you goddamn idiot. Everything that involves adding things up to get integrals is formulated by Riemann and Lebesgue.
>I never said that.
You used the fact that sequential limits used the Archemedean property as support for your idiotic OP "Archimedes almost invented calculus".
Just fucking stop. You're embarrassing yourself.
>>592443
Please don't try to find a Übermensch race. There never was one and hopefully will never be one. All humans are almost the same.
>>595181
Nothing of what I said is wrong. No field yet. I'm just in the third semester maths.
Everything that can produce proofs is a formal system AFAIK. Archimedes didn't use the same proof as Euclid:
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/Archimedes.shtml
Weierstrass is known as "the father of modern Analysis".
You seeem to be very angry for no reason. What field do you study and why are you so angry?
>>595279
>still an undergrad
>calls himself a mathematician
>misunderstands basic concepts
>"hurr I'm not wrong because I say so"
>"father of modern analysis" somehow implies that he formalized integral calculus
>a GEB-tier understanding of formal systems
Embarrassing. I'm mad and mildly amused because in every intro course I teach, there's always someone like you who's proud of being partially knowledgeable.
I'm studying topological quantum field theories by the way, ask me anything.
>>591487
>And Lesbianism was also socially accepted.
source?
>>591357
>sexual freedom
Uh, what?
Greece was not unified on morals, but there was no sexual freedom, unless you were a slave owner.
Here is how it worked:
- Free women had no sexual freedom.
- Men could have sex with their own wives, prostitutes (who they looked down upon) and their own slaves (having sex with someone else's slaves was not OK).
- Slaves didn't have much of a choice.
That's not much different from places with slavery in the 16th/17th century.
The only one that was a little different was Sparta. But there, women were baby factories. They didn't have sex for fun. They had sex so that they could have more kids. The closest to "sexual freedom" they had for women was in the case when the husband would get some strong soldier to impregnate his wife so that she would have a strong kid.
>>595355
>unless you were a slave owner.
A MALE slave owner.
>>595315
Explain to me how you would prove choholomogy groups that correspond to ground states.
>>595371
>string of nonsense
>"prove" an object
You really have no idea what you're talking about do you?
Cohomology groups are used to clarify forms on a manifold you idiot. If the symmetry group G of a Lagrangian had trivial second cohomology group then the the elements of its Lie algebra can be written as a G-invariant Lie bracket. This is what Yang-Mills theory studies.
>>595337
the named an island after them
>>595355
now compare that to Christian sexual morals
>>595496
Christian sexual morals are more advanced than that. They are very similar to late-Stoic sexual morals, but more forgiving.
One problem of yours is to think that more anarchic sexual morals are better. This is not the case.
>>595538
>This is not the case.
This is an opinion.
>>595552
Why would anarchic sexual morals be better?
>>595564
because Jews wrote the bible
>>591394
Any evidence this actually existed?
>>595179
I hate when people try to say the greeks thought the world was flat.
I bet even sea people knew that wasnt the case simply by watching ships "sink" into the horizon. Considering the greeks were excellent sailors, mathmaticians, and astronomers, they no doubt knew the world was round and probably assumed theyd hit the other end of mainland eurasia if they went west.
>>595574
References by multiple sources, but no actual physical proof, tho' I'm not a studied man.
>>595574
you can see it in season 5, when Arya goes to Braavos
>>595583
Nah youre thinking of episode one where aragorn and friends pass under it on their way to Mordor.
>>595440
They were named after the island actually
>>595652
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
>>595574
It probably did
The scale and appearance is up to date
>>593336
Again, that depends on the specific city state. In Spartan orgies surely not everyone could have been a giver and not a taker
>>595989
Not him but sometimes I present myself in arrogant ways on topics I know nothing about in order to bait strong oppositions that I then take pleasure in reading; no need to keep the ruse going.
>>596088
>hurr I was just pretending to be retarded
Ancient greece was amazing.
Currently reading an osprey book about greek fortifications.
>>596091
But im really not him and I really pretend to be a retard all the time. People are inclined to pull out the textbooks when they see an opportunity to sound smart and "win" an internet argument.
>>596135
>implying people would need to pull out textbooks to dispute claims as stupid as his
>implying pulling out a textbook would somehow degrade the counterarguments
>implying you're not just pathetically samefagging
You're a damn idiot.
Rome was better at literally everything and you know it
>>591357
>mindblowingly advanced maths
Let me guess, you know next to nothing about math
>>596179
Trigonometry is hard
>>596150
Wew lad slow the green.
Didnt even read the conversation desu senpai
>>596186
>butting into the convo without reading it first
>implying
>Nice
>samefag.
>Almost
>got
>too
>convincing
>there.
>>595989
You actually replied to 2 different people. I'm OP and I didn't ask you about "cohomology groups".
I don't see what you BTFO'd me about? You presented your opinion on Newton/Leibniz I presented mine. You think the Archimedes-Eudoxos idea of infinitesimals is wastly different from the Calculus of infinitesimals - okay, you are free to believe that. Then you went on to post your waifu and call me an idiot because Riemann defined integrals rigorously. I have no clue what the purpose of this statement was, but I guess whatever? Either way, obviously there wasn't anything to discuss in the first place, so why even reply? I think you want to argue for the sake for arguing. Being angry won't make you happy man.
>>596179
If you compare it to any other civilization up to 1650AD, it was mindblowingly advanced. That's quite a statement.
>>596267
>gets shown his beliefs are flawed and idiotic
>"hurr that's just, like, your opinion man"
Do you even understand what a fact is? You're basically wishing that this thread be an echo chamber for your stupid thinking.
>>596311
>Do you even understand what a fact is?
Please, do tell me the facts. Because thusfar the only thing your posts contained were opinions, insults, and your waifu.
>>596341
Dont pull that niggas waifu in this, thats going too far.
The sirens from the Odyssey.
>>596357
Scylla from the Odyssey.
>>596367
Theseus killing the Minotaur.
>>596357
Is there a reason why sometimes in Greek Art the people are naked and other times they're not?
>>596341
Why don't you read the thread again? Or are you just selectively illiterate?
Facts:
>Archemedes "nearly invented calculus" is idiotic
>"Weirestrass's calculus" isn't a thing
>formals systems aren't just something that can prove statements
>number systems that contain infinitesimals aren't part of standard analysis considered by Newton
>basically, you're just a fucking retard
>>596376
Heracles fighting the sea-monster of Troy.
>>593962
>And Ancient Greece was the only society in the last 3000 years that allowed the same (or similar) possibilites as the society of today - the 21st century.
As a thracian barbarian from up north, i feel that the achaeminid empire was better at social opportunities.
>The point I want to make is, whatever your occupation or your passion is today, you could have done it in Ancient Greece as well.
Half the things you do today are done in all societies.
Also, i'm a programmer.
Whats the deal with greek fire?
>>596421
It burns things
>>596378
Greeks used to just take off their clothes when they felt horny.
>>594998
>doesn't matter if he said it or not, what matters is the content which i most surely agree with
Of course it matters where it comes from, you moron. Just like when people tie that idiotic "Live a good life" thing to Marcus Aurelius(which is doubly ironic, since such a quote fits more with his philosophical rivals, the epicureans). There are so many concepts in that quote that are dependent on the worlview of the speaker. What you are doing is just making a mess of philosophy and spreading disinfo.
>>596427
A pic of the American ambassador to Greece.
>>596427
Is he wearing an ancient hard hat
>>596378
It gets hot in Greece you know. I wish I could go naked in North Carolina but social norms and all that.
You do know that this romantic vision of Ancient Greece is based on the fantasies of Europeans from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, right?
In reality, they were superstitious hicks just like everyone else, but with a smart ruling class in Athens thanks to all commerce.
>>596444
What, you're saying European Reneissance romanticed cultures and history? No way
>>593333
Implying there is something wrong with that.
>Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
>>594145
Just because textbooks ignore scholars like Jean Buridan and Nichole Oresme for political reasons, doesn't mean they were non-existent.
>>596436
Achilles and Ajax playing a game.
>>596455
Yes, but people still take it seriously and believe that Ancient Greeks were all rational ubermensch instead of people who sacrificed chicken like everyone else and offered libation to statues like everyone else.
>>596468
>some no-names
>relevant
That is what Christian apologetics actually believe.
>>596487
They were in fact like everyone else at that time, just a 1000 times smarter.
>>596498
These late Medieval scholars actually began the process of mathematization of physics that would culminate in the Scientific Revolution 300 years later (it could have happened sooner, if Renaissance scholars didn't went back to masturbate over Greek texts).
The reason they are "no-names" for you is because most intellectuals are communists who hate Christian Europe for being a decentralized society, so they slander it with lies and false propaganda to make the case that only absolute centralization of political power in the central government authority, as in Imperial Rome, can bring progress of prosperity.
Of course, that's false, since what made Rome (and even Ancient Greece) great was it's decentralization of power in cities and "collegia", but communists do not love history so much as they instrumentalize it for their own revolutionary purposes.
thought the sun revolved around the earth and that the earth didn't spin.
>>596560
Thats not true
>>596718
It's what some of their works said though.
>>596727
People write bullshit all the time. Are all Americans retarded because some retards in utah wrote the book of mormom? Will people think mormonism was a common belief system for the intellectual class when they find a book in a coffin or something?
>>596762
No this was actually 'mainstream' thought back then and only disproven nearly 2000 years later.
They never taught you Copernicus and such in school?
>>593315
I think you are immensely downplaying the importance of proof in mathematics
>>596853
Reread the post
>>591357
>sexual freedom, full tolerance of homosexuality
how does sexual freedom improve a society?
>>596909
Less restrictions = happier citizen
>>596918
>liberals
Fucking bleeding heart shits, we need more restrictions and oppression
>>596918
>Less restrictions = happier citizen
Moderation leads to happiness according to aristotle. constant hangovers, to give the example, dont lead to happy citizenry.
>>597109
Alcohol abuse and sexual freedom arent compareable.
>>597145
>Alcohol abuse and sexual freedom arent compareable.
Sexual abuse and wine tasting aren't comparable.
>>597152
Well should sexual freedom be concidered sexual abuse? When I use the term sexual freedom, I mean sexual acts between 2. consent adults, and I cant help but to sense you have a different meaning.
If you want to, you can put fowards what you feel sexual freedom means and stands for, and we can compare and analyze both of our answers.
>>595066
>>595058
Epictetus was alive during the ROMAN empire
>>597171
If a Roman slave could do it, I dont see how an average Greek citizen could not, if they felt the truly burning passion for philosophy.
>>597163
>Well should sexual freedom be concidered sexual abuse? When I use the term sexual freedom, I mean sexual acts between 2. consent adults, and I cant help but to sense you have a different meaning.
Jacking off too much can result in a dopamine hang over. Not doing so is moderation.
Not being a slut is moderation.
sexualizing the underage subtly is not moderation.
So I think sex can go too far, and monogamy is better. "consenting adults" can make bad decisions that overall social shame can root out, so people don't waste their time.
also we don't need to be paying for people's mistakes if we are going to let them do whatever they want, like with those girls who get kids early and then can't work and no one wants to marry them because they got pregnant from a fucboy.
>>591370
ruth benedict would disagree
>>596156
>supposedly obsessed with Egypt
They were. The achievement of Egypt was its great monuments and the Greeks duly obsessed over Egyptian aesthetics.
>>591528
>They did what was fun, without the need to justify it via a label
ah, the 'greeks were all liberated hedonists' meme
>>596378
>Sometimes people were clothed
>Sometime not
Is this even a question?
>>597190
This is a very interesting view on the subject, thank you for sharing it.
Monogamy in humans is a rather interesting topic, since it appears in humans throught religious and social concepts and theres no arguing the moral beauty of it, but I don't think humans are strictly built for it. We can't change our nature, which is to breed alot and often, to spread our genes as much as possible. There are people who prefer monogamy but it's rather rare in people who havent been taught to be like that, is it not? We can learn to love other people even if our spouse passes away, for example.
Your point on the society paying for peoples mistakes (reckless sexual relationships and offspring that produces) is a fair one too. It is true this is a big resource taker and straight out can waste the life of clever, bright and potential young people.
But I have to ask you, is restricting peoples actions the right way to treat the problem? It will work on some people, but people will always be reckless and make mistakes.
I'd rather want to see more sexual education in schools for example, to teach young adults that their actions do indeed have real consequences and wild pleasure seeking can at worst destroy lifes.
Instead of trying to hide sex, it should be taught as a subject, on the morals of it and how to do it without messing up your life, since this is a possibility in our culture and society. You speak of moderation, so why not teach young adults to be moderate about it, rather than trying to cage their "wanderlust?"
I'm sorry for the long, unfocused reply, it's 3 am where I am and I'm not very studied on the subject.
>>591357
>sexual freedom, full tolerance of homosexuality
More like, no sexual freedom and no tolerance of homosexuality.
To speak broadly of a people quite diverse in customs.. If you were a woman – no sexual freedom. If you were a common man (as in fact most Greeks were, 'Athenian'-style democracies were occasional, inconsistent and near meme-tier), you could either fuck your wife, or if you were lucky, fuck a slave.
Most all Hellene societies looked down, to speak gently, on actual homosexuality. Modern romantics have tried to present a different picture to suit their own sensibilities and fetishistic view of the Achaeans, but the fact remains that from a modern lens, the Greeks would have been seen as quite homophobic. What is presented to the modern audience as homosexuality was closer to paedophilia – or more specifically, ephebephilia. The targets of their affections were male, yes, but what made it socially acceptable (even then in only certain contexts) was that they were youths. To feel affection for a grown man, let alone to fuck him, was very much taboo and an affront to his masculinity.
This was hardly sexual freedom, though – there were specific customs governing which youths you could pursue, what you could do with them and when. Unless you were a slave, in which case you could simply be raped. Ah, freedom. Of course, the social politicking of established men often led to families essentially selling the 'affections' of their young lads to whichever old goat exerted sufficient pressure on them.. In theory, it was supposed to be a mentor/pupil relationship. In practice, they twisted it into institutionalized child abuse.
So please, can we stop with the Greek sexual enlightenment meme? They were socially repressed degenerates who locked their wives away and raped each others' sons. They were the classical version of an Islamic NAMBLA.
t. an actual faggot
>>597269
>But I have to ask you, is restricting peoples actions the right way to treat the problem?
Not necesarily. Sometimes "shame" works well enough.
>>597269
>I'd rather want to see more sexual education in schools for example, to teach young adults that their actions do indeed have real consequences and wild pleasure seeking can at worst destroy lifes.
>Instead of trying to hide sex, it should be taught as a subject, on the morals of it and how to do it without messing up your life, since this is a possibility in our culture and society. You speak of moderation, so why not teach young adults to be moderate about it, rather than trying to cage their "wanderlust?"
>I'm sorry for the long, unfocused reply, it's 3 am where I am and I'm not very studied on the subject.
In some US areas the kids are taught from a very young age, which seems to have the effect of encourage sexuality they should not even be experiencing. But yeah otherwise I agree with you.
>>597269
>. There are people who prefer monogamy but it's rather rare in people who havent been taught to be like that, is it not? We can learn to love other people even if our spouse passes away, for example.
Not sure. I think women prefer monogamy, and since they're one half of the equation, this means most societies prefer monogamy. There is some cheating on the side, but this is not to my knowledge universal is "civilized" areas (China, etc). Like, if you look at lesbians, they're less polyamourous than male homosexuals.
>>597345
based faggot/10
>>596512
First of all, "medieval scholars" invented jackshit.
Second, Christian Europe was almost exclusively super-centralized monarchies, as opposed to the Greek city states, so that's a retarded point too.
And clearly this thread is not about the Roman Empire.
>>597109
>constant hangovers
Yet people should be able to freely choose to get hangovers or not. Same with sex.
>>597190
None of this makes any sense. You are just butthurt that some people have more sex than you.
>>597248
"Sexual conservatives", dear ladies and gentlemen. Or in other words: Other people get laid and I don't, therefore I am angry.
Sexuals morals are shit, and everyone who contemplates sexual morals is intellectually inferior.
>>599020
Do you really think Epictetus, Kant, Aristotles and pretty much every great Moral Philosopher that ever walked on Earth was intellectual inferior? That sluts and Charlie Sheen are the wise ones?
>>599033
Could you explain the second part of your post?
>>597467
>>But I have to ask you, is restricting peoples actions the right way to treat the problem?
>Not necesarily. Sometimes "shame" works well enough.
This is the true face of "sexual moralists".
>>599040
I most countries of the world, once you are 14 or 16, you can fuck whoever you want, when you want, how often you want. The very same rules apply to alcohol.
"Sexual morals" only exist in "Islamic Nations" and America (partially only, fortunately).
>>599039
>Epictetus, Kant, Aristotles
I am pretty sure none of them contemplates sexual morals because they are long dead.
>>599048
It is not because it is legal that it is right.
Drinking every day until you pass out is legal. Doesn't make it a good thing.
Sexual Morals also exist in other parts of the world. Actually, I don't think there is a place without some kind of sexual morals.
>>599056
Were they intellectually inferior when they lived? Also, why would it be the case that "everyone who contemplates sexual morals is intellectually inferior"? Is being a sheep superior to being a man?
>>599061
>It is not because it is legal that it is right.
That is exactly what legal means.
>Drinking every day until you pass out is legal. Doesn't make it a good thing.
You can do whatever you want with your own body. That is the only good thing.
>Sexual Morals also exist in other parts of the world.
No, people just rape each other, you know.
You so dumb. If you want to argue whether or not sexual freedom is a good thing, don't do it on /his/.
So get fucked >>>/pol/
>>599066
>Is being a sheep superior to being a man?
You too >>>/pol/
>>599072
>That is exactly what legal means.
No, it is not.
Legal means it is permitted by law. It doesn't mean it is right, but rather that the legislators decided that it should not be illegal.
>You can do whatever you want with your own body. That is the only good thing.
No, it is not the only good thing. Drinking every day until you pass out is not good.
>No, people just rape each other, you know.
This makes no sense.
>You so dumb. If you want to argue whether or not sexual freedom is a good thing, don't do it on /his/.
>So get fucked >>>/pol/
Are you aware that your are actually arguing "whether or not sexual freedom is a good thing"?
>>599072
And before you come with a stupid retort:
>Was Ancient Greece sexually free
/his/-topic
>Is sexual freedom a "good thing"
/pol/-topic
>>599076
You didn't answer the question.
Is living life without ever questioning what is the right way to live, but based on indulging on bodily needs intellectually superior?
>>599079
>Are you aware that your are actually arguing "whether or not sexual freedom is a good thing"?
I am responding to your dumb comments in a way every good citizen should.
I repeat again: If you don't want to discuss Ancient Greece, leave this thread.
>>>/pol/
>>599101
Does anyone here think this is a good answer?
Part of the Parthenon Frieze.
>>599104
>>599105
Look, your opinions don't interest me. I know that's hard to understand for you, because you are dumb /pol/-trash, but that's just how it is.
>>599131
More Parthenon Frieze.
>>599135
Parthenon artistic reconstruction.
>>599141
The Panathenaic procession.
>>599157
Artistic reconstruction of Athens.
Ancient Greek Warship 500–322 BC
Piraeus, harbour of Athens.
Athenian trireme.
>>599249
>Ancient Greek Warship 500–322 BC
That's the title of the Osprey book.
>>599262
Trireme fighting crew.
>>599267
Battle of Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War.
>>599274
Rowing crew, this concludes the dump for this book.
>>599285
>>596458
> Camille Paglia
> quoting ever
She's the best articulated version of a terrible wrong way of thinking. Yes, Athens was wonderful... for the men. Those accomplishments wouldn't be so important if you were a woman or a slave. You may as well use the Koch brothers as an example of how America is a utopia.
>>599041
>This is the true face of "sexual moralists".
Shame like "Murder is bad. You're bad for doing it." nothing wrong with this. Same goes with shame about "racism" (except I'm in favor of ethnocentrism).
>>599880
>You may as well use the Koch brothers as an example of how America is a utopia.
You may not. The Koch brothers are 2 people out of 300million. If there were as many slaves as free people, then the male ("priviledged") population of Athens was still 25% of the population.
>>599963
>Shame like "Murder is bad. You're bad for doing it.
But can and should the seeking of sexual pleasure be concidered morally wrong on the same level as murder? Don't you think that's a bit much?
>>599963
>Shame like "Murder is bad. You're bad for doing it."
You are tripping all over yourself my fedora'd friend.
>>598986
I was waiting for this comment
>>600000
holy fuck
>>600000
Noice
>>600000
>>595659
"Lesbian" originally meant a person from the island of Lesbos. Then a famous poet named Sappho was born there. She happened to be a female homosexual and wrote some love poems about women and girls. This led to the words "lesbian" and "sapphic" being associated with female homosexuality.
>>595337
The claim that lesbianism was socially acceptable is debatable. It doesn't seem that Sappho was ever punished for her behavior, and she even managed to become famous for her writing. But ancient Greek references to lesbianism are pretty sparse and tend to be rather negative, giving the impression that it may have been frowned upon but not forbidden.
>>600244
>some greeks run into two girls kissing and feeling each other up
>Promptly get boners
>"i guess...i guess this is ok"
And the rest is history. Lesbians have traditionally been more socially acceptable than gays because one reason and one reason only: girl on girl is damn sexy
>>599995
Being a pleasure seeker is considered morally wrong.
>>599020
Enjoy your STDs, slut.
>>600308
That's a pretty dismal outlook.
>>598953
>First of all, "medieval scholars" invented jackshit.
Just one example, and not even an specially relevant one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bradwardine
>
The now published sources prove to us, beyond contention, that the main kinematical properties of uniformly accelerated motions, still attributed to Galileo by the physics texts, were discovered and proved by scholars of Merton college.... In principle, the qualities of Greek physics were replaced, at least for motions, by the numerical quantities that have ruled Western science ever since. The work was quickly diffused into France, Italy, and other parts of Europe. Almost immediately, Giovanni di Casale and Nicole Oresme found how to represent the results by geometrical graphs, introducing the connection between geometry and the physical world that became a second characteristic habit of Western thought.
>>600339
Why do you think so?
>You will see, he said, in a moment what progress he has made and what he is like. He had scarcely said the word, when Charmides entered.
Now you know, my friend, that I cannot measure anything, and of the beautiful, I am simply such a measure as a white line is of chalk; for almost all young persons appear to be beautiful in my eyes. But at that moment, when I saw him coming in, I confess that I was quite astonished at his beauty and stature; all the world seemed to be enamoured of him; amazement and confusion reigned when he entered; and a troop of lovers followed him. That grown-up men like ourselves should have been affected in this way was not surprising, but I observed that there was the same feeling among the boys; all of them, down to the very least child, turned and looked at him, as if he had been a statue.
>He came as he was bidden, and sat down between Critias and me. Great amusement was occasioned by every one pushing with might and main at his neighbour in order to make a place for him next to themselves, until at the two ends of the row one had to get up and the other was rolled over sideways. Now my friend, was beginning to feel awkward; former bold belief in my powers of conversing with him had vanished. And when Critias told him that I was the person who had the cure, he looked at me in such an indescribable manner, and was just going to ask a question. And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare! I caught a sight of the inwards of his garment, and took the flame. Then I could no longer contain myself. I thought how well Cydias understood the nature of love, when, in speaking of a fair youth, he warns some one "not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him," for I felt that I had been overcome by a sort of wild-beast appetite. But I controlled myself, and when he asked me if I knew the cure of the headache, I answered, but with an effort, that I did know.
>>600346
Because it seem too sweeping and unnatural.
Just to categorically condemn pleasure like that? Come on man.
Should life just be endless misery and toil?
>>600292
That doesn't seem to be true in ancient Greece though. Lesbianism is only rarely mentioned and seems to have been looked down upon to a degree. Male homosexuality is referenced far more often, and seems to have been more openly practiced and accepted.
>>600357
It is not.
Basically, being a pleasure seeker makes you an inferior person.
>>600368
Epicurus had one of the best all around worldviews in philosophy of religion.
Prove me wrong
>>596283
no it wasn't?
>>600368
>inferior
By what metric?
>>600433
Well, if you seek pleasure in a simple, virtuous life, you're still a pleasure seeker.
It's not a bad thing.
>>600480
The pleasure Epicurus looked for was not the one "sexual freedom" advocates look for. Not that I'm an Epicurean or agree with him.
Epicurus is more "pain avoider" than "pleasure seeker".
>>591387
Pausanias was a huge pedo
>>600433
>Because it makes you a slave to pleasure.
The same could be said of any motivating factor, you could be a "slave to _______" fill in the blank with any concept.
That's also not strictly a metric of inferiority.
>>596512
>who hate Christian Europe for being a decentralized society
>this is what christians actually believe
>>600353
Hot as fuck. How old was he?
>Peloponnesian War
/thread
Altough I'd count Alexander as a part of the ancient greek culture.
>>600554
Yes, and????
Being a slave to material possessions is also pretty bad.
>>600808
This guy actually had a huge desire for sexual pleasure. He was no Epictetus.
>>600833
>>Peloponnesian War
I am terribly unsure Anon. Alexander made Greece strong, but someone the Romans still managed to roll over them, kingdom by kingdom.
The Diadochi left behind were each several times stronger than the Romans and anything could've happened.
>>600867
>someone
*somehow
>>600857
>This guy actually had a huge desire for sexual pleasure. He was no Epictetus.
He was an angry guy, just like yourself. Angry at people who enjoy sex.
>>600955
Are you mentally retarded?
That was a guy with a huge sexual desire. The kind of person that I just called inferior.
Someone that wants to have sex with dozens of people but can't is as bad as a slut.
>>594130
>In the societies that were inbetween today and then, it was not possible
Right, because we didn't have mathematicians, engineers, scientists, professional athletes, soldiers, sailors, composers, playwrights, poets, historians, philosophers, priests, or politicians between the fall of Greece and the 20th century.
>you will never go back in time and murder Aristagoras
What a cunt, Jesus.
>you'll never fuck up as hard as Nicias
He had so many opportunities to win the Sicilian Expedition, but his selfishness and lethargy essentially cost Athens the War. Like seriously Sparta sent 4 ships and he couldn't be bothered to intercept them till it was too late, he forgot to bring enough cavalry, he didn't finish the siege wall and made forts for himself instead, he missed many opportunities to attack Syracuse and inspire his men.
Fuck Nicias.
>>601067
Ancient Greece blows me away. The rationality of their thinking combined with the aesthetics of their art and also of their environment.
>Imagine yourself sailing in a trireme along these shores, a midday sun shining incandescently, a glaring sea, a man in hoplite armor, with a long, curly, black beard stands at the bow, looking outward. Your turn your head and see the most beautiful young man, smiling, giggling, his full lips baring his lustrous white teeth. His eyes narrow when he smiles - how often were you lost in them? You were telling him something. There was this philosophical debate about the composition of the world. How would someone even find out the truth of these claims? A really surreal question. But there was a more immediate matter, a diplomatic mission, and you had to collect this statue. There could be a war if the deal works out. And you might die. But the warm sunshine on your skin wrests you from your thoughts. This moment is real, this much you know.
>>601203
>that repressed gay fantasy
>>591357
>tolerance is a sign of development
>>596436
>American ambassador
>fat
Some things never change
>>596135
he's right you know.
Best way to get information on the internet is to say something wrong.
>>596421
we don't know how to make it
>>600000
neat getto bruvo
>>596382
>formals systems aren't just something that can prove statements
>A formal system is broadly defined as any well-defined system of abstract thought based on the model of mathematics.
>An uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
>absolutelywrong.jpeg
>>600344
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bradwardine
>invented how to draw some curves
literally jackshit
That's like a fraction of what Galileo invented "along the way".
>>599083
Not him, but 4chan is very open to threads evolving, and this:
>omfg! A thread evolved past the original post! GRRRRRR I"M BUTTMADDDD
is cancer beyond anything he's done.
>>599131
....I just got here and you're the biggest faggot in the thread, sorry.
Nice google image dump tho
