This shit is hilarious
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
III.5.3 (on the wall in the street); 8898: Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog
I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
VII.9 (Eumachia Building, via della Abbondanza); 2048: Secundus likes to screw boys.
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1864: Samius to Cornelius: go hang yourself!
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>>3231178
Are these literal translations?
Were ordinary Romans seriously this eloquent?
It's hard to imagine, considering so many people in modern developed nations today communicate like fucking oogaboogas, compared to most of what's written there.
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Literacy rate was higher in the Roman Empire (well, probably not everywhere) than nowadays.
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Do you believe in fate?
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What is the end game of nihilism?
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nothing
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Truth
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Why would you ask Nietzsche, he didn't even like nihilism
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>The Illiad and Odyssey were the only 2 surviving books out of a 10 book Epic Cycle.
I find this idea fascinating, what other tome of history or mystery are we missing?
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We have lost a large amount of Classical Philosophy.
Chryssipus was considered one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity and has written a lot. We have no surviving texts of his.
A large part of the failings and uselessness of post-medieval Ethics are due to this.
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>>3231013
The bulk of the writing was in the two books so we didnt miss too much. Also Homer as the "author" probably never existed. It seems far morelikely there were generations of oral story tellers and multiple authors trying to mash everything together.
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>a monk should not laugh etc
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wtf??!? So all that time he didn't believe in any of it but went along with it anyway.
Was it autism?
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>>3230989
>ideologues are surrounded by opportunists
more news at 11
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>>3231031
>opportunist
>follow an utterly insane leader who will inevitably lose the war
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>>3231643
and got hanged for it
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>An episode of his female affairs that stands out was his stay at the palace of Thespius, king of Thespiae, who wished him to kill the Lion of Cithaeron. As a reward, the king offered him the chance to perform sexual intercourse with all fifty of his daughters in one night. Heracles complied and they all became pregnant and all bore sons. This is sometimes referred to as his Thirteenth Labour. Many of the kings of ancient Greece traced their lines to one or another of these, notably the kings of Sparta and Macedon.
Why were the ancients so much more masculine than us? How did human society become so emasculated?
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>EVERY king of Greece was a literal cuck
Explains a lot desu
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>>3230970
The daughters didn't have any relationship befoer hand. So it's not cucking. Idiot.
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>>3230970
>hebrew worshiping retard doesn't understand the definition of cuck
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Why does the Confederacy trigger the left so much?
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Because simple black and white narratives concerning war are always easier to swallow. It's very convenient to have a good side and a bad side. Liberals are especially triggered by confederates because the modern Dem Party Machine has been trying to divorce itself from its pre-LBJ roots for decades and then flip the script on to the republicans as US history's most enduring racists.
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they think that slavery is bad
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>>3230924
>Th-The Civil War wasn't about slavery!
o i am laffin
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What if Germany unified in the Middle Ages?
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>>3230858
hard to tell... probably world dominance by 1800
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>>3230858
Bump0
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>>3230858
would probably end up like china where they split apart and come back together several times until they industrialize and stay that way
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What was his fucking problem?
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So I was going through a man in the high castle thread and I stumbled upon this meme. I couldn't stop laughing.
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>>3230752
There are tons of these
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Why didn't Poland-Lithuania ever invade the HRE? Did they fear the Holy Roman warrior?
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>>3230689
Because Russia and Sweden would seize the opportunity to crush the meme Polish Lituanian commonwealth ?
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>>3230723
Daily reminder that Germany/ Prussia(?), Sweden and especially R*ssia only exist today because Polish people aren't savages that only seek to destroy everything in their way.
Only HRE is comparable to PLC
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How could the germans have prevented operation uranus?
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>>3230674
By waving a magic wand and having another 300,000 or so men to guard those weak flanks.
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Not invading the fucking Soviet Union
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>>3230700
/thread
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Who is objectively the most patrician demon of all? Seth or Typhon?
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Money.
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>>3230854
free shit lmao
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are any of you cunts listening to some of that there folk music, even if its polluted with a leccy guitar?
steeleye span here. ah lurve me some english and irish folk, and martin carthy/maddy prior are a great combo.
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>>3230572
I think you're looking for /mu/. But Pete Seeger's great.
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>>3230577
i thought it might be /his/ related because they're old folk songs which document peoples' experience of historic events. folks songs represent important historic sources in their own right, even if they've been adulterated over the years, like the matty groves/shady grove evolution from england to america.
it's pretty cool that there is the shared cultural link between amerikay and ol' england, even if it's largely obscured and the preserve of antiquarians.
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On Valentine's Day of 1884, just 36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Alice, 25-year-old future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt held his young wife in his arms as she passed away from undiagnosed Bright's disease. Incredibly, just hours before, in the same house, he had already said a final goodbye to his mother, Martha. She had succumbed to Typhoid, aged just 48.
Theodore's diary for that day read as follows..
FEBRUARY, THURSDAY 14. 1884
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The light has gone out of my life.
Any more incidents of historical /sad/posting?
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>>3230559
>tfw you'll never marry your submissive wife young, raw dog her every night and force her to spit out 6-7 kids over 20 years eventually watching her die in childbirth
Modernity was a mistake
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26 Now as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king!” 27 He said, “No! Let the Lord help you. How can I help you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?” 28 But then the king asked her, “What is your complaint?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son; we will eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son and we will eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.” 30 When the king heard the words of the woman he tore his clothes—now since he was walking on the city wall, the people could see that he had sackcloth on his body underneath—