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Best Greek History Book For Christmas Gift?
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I am looking to buy my father a book on Greek history and I don't know where to start. He's a layman but recently he's been really into the history. Also he reads a lot and is an academic so length or difficulty is not really an issue, but I'd prefer something relatively entry level and something either that is all encompassing about ancient to medieval Greek culture or something that is particular but would be interesting to a first timer.
Cheers.
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>>2125973
Get him a copy of the David Grene translation of Herodotus. It's great fun and very readable.
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>>2125973
nabbed this off lit
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>>2126082
First time i'm seeing this.
It's actually a pretty good intro for the Greeks.
Good post anon, well done.
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Do I have to read the pre-Socratics or can I just jump straight into Plato?
Also /philosophy/ thread.
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The Republic
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There's honestly very little from the presocratics. What there is is worth reading though. There's a podcast "The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps" by a philosophy professor that covers the presocratics really well in, like, 10 short podcasts. That would be a good starting point I think.
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>>2125771
Gotcha. Fuck everyone before Plato.
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Why is political thought in some countries more polarised than in others?
Is there an historic reason behind this?
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>>2125369
The size of country and diversity of groups should be the one reason.
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Some countries are different than others
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>>2125369
Some systems are more vulnerable to this than others.
>Winner takes it all
>3 alternatives
>X win because Z took votes from Y
>Next election Z don't get any votes at all because people voting for Z think Y is better than X and Y have a better chance of winning
>Nation ends up with two big blocks and any diversity is within each political party and not divided between several different political parties
>Majority in parliament needed
>3 alternatives
>X have the most votes, but Z and Y have a majority of votes when count together
>Since Z and Y can compromise on a few points they work together to form a government since cooperation is better than having X in charge
>Political diversity maintained
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>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
When will this meme end?
It was literally Holy, Roman, and an Empire! You cannot refute me, /his/!
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>>2125367
Delet this!
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>when you sack Rome and take the pope hostage at the behest of the Spanish emperor
#justHREthings
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Was he right or not, what was the secret behind Marx popularity or influence? Many philosophers, historians and economists had their ideas about new society of some type, but none of them was taken *that* seriously by many people all around the world.
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He was a Jew. He had other powerful Jews to vouch for him. Marxism is yet another invention of Chosen People to enslave goyim more efficiently.
Anarchism is where it's at. You know why Marx struggled so hard to kick Bakunin out of Internationale? Because he realized he was busted.
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>>2125305
Why would Rothschild vouch for Marx?
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>>2125305
Bakunin was pretty based.
What's this guys name again?
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>>2125258
Marie Arouet Francois "Look At Me I'm An Obnoxious Smug Frog Who Never Wrote Anything Of Note And Is Only Remembered By Pathetic Stale Jokes" Voltaire
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>>2125266
>never wrote anything of note
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C5%92uvres_compl%C3%A8tes_de_Voltaire
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>>2125258
François-Marie Arouet: a well-known antisemite.
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Is it true you only need an embattled minority... 2016-12-22 12:37:59 Post No.2125171
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Is it true you only need an embattled minority...
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...and a complacent majority to have massive upheaval?
How many russians were bolsheviks at the time of the communist revolution? 5%? 10%?
And how many germans were nationalsocialists in 1933?
Also, can you provide other examples where a small minority managed to take control of an entire country?
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the bolsheviks piggybacked off of the February revolution and the Nazis were democratically elected
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>>2125176
Ok but they still took power and caused massive upheaval. A drastic change.
So what were the percentages?
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>>2125179
Nobody fucking knows they didn't do studies about this crap back then.
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What is a catch-all phrase for a pre-nationalism political entity?
There were many different kinds political entity, kingdoms, duchies, principalities, clans, tribes, tribal confederations, baronies, city states, warlords, religious orders, bishoprics, fiefdoms, merchant republics, caliphates, beyliks, empires, emirates etcetera.... There were also many political entities within political entities that were all but independent. How would you refer to all of these?
Technically they are states, but this implies a modern bureaucracy (unless you're talking about the papal states). "Political entity" sounds too verbose and pseudointellectual. You could call them "powers", but most people aren't familiar with this. They aren't nations because nationalism wasn't around yet. Just calling them "groups" is a bit broad.
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Land
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>>2125055
land is too broad, doesn't cover the multiple smaller entities that might inhabit a single land
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>>2125044
Polity.
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A Holy Roman Empire?
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>Blessed by the pope (WHen he wasn't being a self serving cunt)
Check
>Controlled Rome
Check
>Emperor
Check
>Eastern Roman Empire
>Eastern
Check
>Roman
Never controlled Rome bare a short period after which they lost it to the lombards and before which they had devestated the heartlands of old Rome with a stupid war
>Empire
Would an Emperor sell his title to the highest bidder?
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>>2124645
LITERALLY this pic
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>>2124645
Did I arouse a few nerves there?
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"Hitler didn’t split his forces to attack Leningrad and Stalingrad. Leningrad was always a key objective for Barbarossa, Army Group North’s target, and for good reason - it was the USSR’s second most important city and a key industrial center. Stalingrad wasn’t even an objective in 1941. Meanwhile, trying to force all of Germany’s attention on Moscow would have been impossible - they couldn’t have supplied a single push towards Moscow (as it was, they couldn’t supply any of their pushes, but trying to cram even more forces into a narrow logistical corridor would have simply made their already-critical problems worse).
Additionally, the German atomic weapons program was a joke that never had a chance of succeeding and they had no means by which to deliver nuclear weapons anyway."
How accurate is this?
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>>2124224
Pretty accurate. The decision to switch the goal halfway through the campaign from Moscow to Stalingrad was one of the most retarded decisions ever made in war. Had they started with that in mind they could have blitzed Ukraine or possibly even pulled Turkey in/pushed through Turkey. Instead they decided to push into an additional area that just left them overextended as fuck and as the 6th army will tell you, that was a bad move.
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>>2124224
>German atomic weapons program was a joke
They never really had an interest, but even if they did they lacked the scientists (killing scientists because they have 1/64th jewish ancestry is a bad idea apparently) and resources to do it
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What would happen if Caesar survived the assassination plot ?
He planned to conquest Parthia and then what ?
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he wanted to emulate Alexander so I guess he would've kept going until he got to India.
probably would've tried to conquer India as well to one up Alexander
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>>2124001
Parthia would've ruined him, he probably would've won but there wouldn't be a huge gain due to the amount of resources it would require not to mention these resources would be necessary for consolidating power in the existing empire. Augustus was one of the few people in history who could've done what he did while also conquering a prosperous area (Egypt). This is all opinion of course but I don't think he would've been that great of an Emperor.
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Can Augustus rise to power if Caesar was not assassinated?
That kid was a little bitch in HBO Rome.
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TIL about how the idea of stereotype on race works. It's called Stereotype Content Model (SCM) in psychological theory. It tells how we can separate stereotypes into 4 categories
>The SCM postulates that all social groups (e.g., older people, the homeless, drug addicts) fit within each of the four combinations of high and low levels of warmth and competence.[1][4] Contradicting earlier theories of stereotype content which assumed that stereotypes reflected unidimensional and uniformly negative attitudes,[5][6] the stereotype content model theorizes that stereotypes are often mixed or ambivalent: groups perceived to be high in one dimension, but low in the other (e.g., old people as rated high on warmth, but low on competence).[1] The groups within each of the four combinations of high and low levels of warmth and competence elicit distinct emotions:[1][4][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_content_model
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>>2123918
Seems interesting.
How would we integrate it into society or make it known enough?
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>Asians
>Feminists
>high status
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>>2123918
>Feminists
>Envious
Some """science""" you have there
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>when you realize that vienna is the rightful capital of the german nation
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>when you realize Vienna is a shithole compared to Praha
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>catholic
Top kek. Prussia was the sole unifier of the German peoples, not some backwards pope cult faggots.
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>>2123606
I wanted to say something but then realized how many Turks and other mudslimes live in Vienna today.
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Lets play a game /his/, who are these men and what happened individually to them?
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>>2123522
They appear to be the aces of the Luftwaffe.
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>>2123531
whats the lead? Uniform or medals?
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>>2123536
Both. You can tell they're Luftwaffe based on the yellow collar tabs; that was their rank insignia. And since every one of them has the Knight's Cross, it stands to reason that they're all aces.
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How do Catholics view the violent history of their denomination, /his/?
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>>2123374
I'm not sure, after seeing how bastardized the Catholic Church is when compared to the orthodox. I have given up on catholics entirely. The Catholic Church has been a bastard egg on society for a long time.
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>>2123374
The church was used by men who wanted power. Now that it has little power many it is a better organization. Politics and religion have never been a good mix.
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>>2123374
Deflection mostly.