Ancient books

absolutely pointless.

>>2113169
meditations by marcus aurelius

>>2113169
De administrando imperio

>>2113169
The Tao Te Ching is pretty worthless, honestly.

>>2113169
Satyricon gave me a good laugh, even if it's pleb-tier reading.

>>2113169
Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version.

>>2113169
The epic of Gilgamesh. 4000 years old, its the oldest piece of writing there is and is a great story with the best bromance in recorded history.

>>2114104
t. pleb

>>2114134
I liked it a lot too, too bad there so many missing parts. If you havent read it you should read the golden ass by Lucius Apuleius. Another Roman novel, the only one surviving in its entirety and it was really funny as well

>>2114190

Whats the most accurate translation?

One where they dont use a European context to interpret Middle Eastern culture.

Like how they interpreted certain Middle Eastern folkloric creatures as "dragons" "unicorns" etc

Most've the ancient books are just copies that the Vatican has allowed to reproduced. I think the Kabalion is from Lebanon or something and that's a bit of 'ancient' knowledge for you to dip your toes in.

The Illiad

The most studied and widely read work for almost 2000 years. Inspired Alexander the Great, almost any Greco-Roman work surviving today references the Illiad at some level (including dialogues of philosophy, history, art, mathematics etc). Even after the arrival of the Bible, it still was a required mastery for most educated people till the Enlightenment.

I literally cannot stress how important it is.

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>>2114680
>You will never rawdog a sacred prostitute, become monster-slaying chads, and go on an epic quest to defeat death (and fail) in order to accept your bro's death.

Feels bad man

>>2115235
Feels real bad. I like the part when hes mad that enkidu dies so he goes and kills like 700 lions to cheer himself up
>>2115216
Is it really more studied than the bible?

>>2115316
>Is it really more studied than the bible?
I can't say so anymore. It was the equivalent of the Bible in its day however. Plato, Alexander, Aristotle, Cicero, Polybius, all have many works that reference or directly discuss the work. Fascinatingly a huge amount of the preserved papyrus scrawlings we recover/have recovered are pieces of the Illiad (largely due to Alexander and the following Diadochi kings instituting a widespread manuscript copying system across the hellenized world to replicate the great works)