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Reading Thucydides. Taking Qs
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:07 AM Author: Hyperactive wild dopamine immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34538945) |
Date: October 27th, 2017 12:08 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim have you read herodotus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34538950) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:14 AM Author: Hyperactive wild dopamine immigrant No, should i? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34538988) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:16 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim definitely man. it's not as realpolitik as thucydides, but the narrative and stories are much more lively and engaging. it still has a core political message, but it's more about cyclical rise and fall of civilizations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34538999) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:18 AM Author: Hyperactive wild dopamine immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539021) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:19 AM Author: fishy aphrodisiac dog poop feces Herodotus is just a collection of myths and fairly tales. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539032) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:21 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim name a single myth in herodotus that he doesn't disregard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539049) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:24 AM Author: fishy aphrodisiac dog poop feces Amazons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539061) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:26 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim they weren't really a myth as much as a widespread historical belief. there was nothing supernatural about them. and that's hardly a substantial part of the narrative. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539081) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:36 AM Author: fishy aphrodisiac dog poop feces A widespread belief in something that doesn't exist doesn't become "historical" just because it was a common belief. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539164) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:37 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim i'm sure thucydides saw with his own eyes the trojan war, which he records as a part of history too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539170) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:16 AM Author: Effete aqua senate don't, it's fairy tales. Thucydides is real scholarship. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539005) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:17 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim (poli sci shithead) there are no myths or "fairy tales" in herodotus, you just associate torturous narrative with rigor |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:19 AM Author: Effete aqua senate herodotus is made up story time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539028) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:27 AM Author: Cream Chapel Milk Tbf all the famous Thucydides bits are just him trying to be Aaron Sorkin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539086) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:27 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim cr, 'i recorded what i heard, or what would have been fitting' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539090) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:54 AM Author: Anal diverse station tattoo herodotus is a 180 questing, playful otter intellect. Thucydides is an uptight pendant tryhard beaver. if you love thucydides there's a 95% chance you're the kind of insufferable douche who also thinks he can apply 'the prince' to his corporate cube job (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539308) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:14 AM Author: Cream Chapel Milk Do you actually enjoy it.
Always found him a tad dull even if he's obviously important and all that. |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:16 AM Author: Hyperactive wild dopamine immigrant Not really I don't think I'll finish it. It was on a great books list so I figured I'd check it out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539003) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:16 AM Author: fishy aphrodisiac dog poop feces We read his book in HS Ancient Greek History class. Good stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539007) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:17 AM Author: Effete aqua senate literally the foundational text of both history and political science. crazy important book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539010) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:18 AM Author: Hyperactive wild dopamine immigrant Hmm maybe I will finish it then. It's just so boring (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539018) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:19 AM Author: Glassy territorial really tough guy prole are you kidding me? I was on the edge of my seat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539031) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:21 AM Author: Hyperactive wild dopamine immigrant Lol no bro I am not enjoying it. Funny how people can have such different tastes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539046) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:36 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim come on man, there are good parts but no one is reading thucydides cover to cover. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539160) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:37 AM Author: Glassy territorial really tough guy prole (non-classically educated lower class scum)
MY UBER EATS IS LATE |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:38 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim i know classical historians pretty well, come at me bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539181) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:55 AM Author: fishy aphrodisiac dog poop feces I read the whole book when I was 16 and I am famously dumb. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539314) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:20 AM Author: fishy aphrodisiac dog poop feces I remember enjoying it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539040) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:17 AM Author: Pontificating Theater Liquid Oxygen have you read homoeroticus volume III? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539009) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:19 AM Author: Glassy territorial really tough guy prole ljl at that island where the athenians were like "We'll kill you all if you dont surrender!" And then the islanders didn't surrender, so the athenians killed them all.
Made sense to me, but I wonder what libs think when they hear about it. |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:20 AM Author: Effete aqua senate the strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must. shit, I had that dialogue fucking memorized at one point in college. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539041) |
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Date: October 27th, 2017 12:20 AM Author: Topaz alcoholic goyim that was melos. definitely one of the best points in thucydides, don't think he was trying to paint the athenians in an unambiguously good light though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#34539042) |
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Date: January 31st, 2019 9:04 PM Author: Glassy territorial really tough guy prole Still waiting on libs to comment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#37700961) |
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Date: March 23rd, 2019 9:59 PM Author: Lemon thriller son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3776126&forum_id=2#37979080) |