Why were the Greeks so fucking great? What the is it about them that allowed them to become so amazing...

Why were the Greeks so fucking great? What the is it about them that allowed them to become so amazing? So fucking amazing that mankind(the part of mankind that matters: The West(Europe)) is still(granted it's a relatively small minority) jerking off to them in ecstatic orgasm after thousands of years? Sometimes I'm filled with incredible amount of life force from reading them or about them, and other times it's crushing depressive episodes where I realize I'll never witness them by my own eyes, witness everything from the simplest of social interactions to the greatest wonders of the ancient world, never be one of them. Can you imagine the festivals? The orators? The feasts? Modern Greeks(Gayreeks) are for the most part pathetic unironic Christians(Jewish), do they not know what they come from? How are they not ashamed? What is it that's stopping Europe today from pulling itself up to similar heights? Is it because everything has become too big, we're too many? Too complacent? Are we just doomed to painful mediocrity and the seemingly eternal meme of "science"? What's the point in """sciencing""" your way to other fucking planets when there's nothing there, everything will have to be built anew by the people sent there. What will be built? The disgusting glass buildings we all know and love from today, those pathetic excuses for architecture? Is that really the best? Or what about some sterile bleak bubble wrap looking beehive contraption? And who will populate these colonies? The same kind of bags of flesh who love the current mess of a society we live in? How long would it take for the colony to shit itself? What if we meet ayyliens? Will we show them our big go boom-boom rockets or will we show them the greatest works of mankind? Where is it all headed? What's that discussion called about how the current times are viewed as "non-historic" times or something akin to that? As if everything has stopped and now """everyone""" is """smart""" and """moral""" and """good""" and life is just about """"living life"""" and """traveling""" and ""fucking"" and """eating good food like pizza"""? I never signed up for this, I didn't ask for this, didn't ask for this life. What is there to do? I don't give a flying fuck about contributing to the eternal meme machine known as the """""""economy""""""". Why? Just to be able to symbolically ejaculate on other people's faces when I tell them I am """someone""" because of my position at work? What society is there to care for? A plane could crash on my street and I wouldn't even bother look out the window. I'd check the news to find that 146 people have lost their lives and that we should all stand together and mourn them and that we should do everything to make sure that something like this never happens again but more importantly I'd be annoyed with all the increased traffic and people.

I wish one of you could slap me in real life. Or choke me to death, whichever would seem more appropriate in the situation.

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What Greeks should I read? I've already read Homer and Plato. Also, don't post that gay "start with the greeks" chart

nice rant OP

What Greeks should I read? I've already read Homer and Plato. Also, don't post that gay "start with the greeks" chart

I don't know if you have heard about the Greeks, but you should probably start with them.

I know there's a really cool "start with the Greeks" chart that I am sure someone nice enough will post.

>write some gayass philosophy and unfunny plays
>fuck little boys
>build 1 good city and a score of shitholes
>lose every war
>sentence men to death for light banter
>your greatest writer likely didn't exist

just appreciating the fact that you spent time typing all that up and at no point were struck by the realization that maybe it wasn't worth it.

It's almost 3 am and there is most definitely something wrong with me so I rant on a Polynesian kite and windsurfing picture exchange instead of going to bed. Pleasant numericals, by the way.

Oh no it happened. And right after I posted it and saw it I realized it had become real, as if someone else had written it and started the thread.

Euripides and Sophocles are both great, and must reads.

-Archaics:
Homer Hesiod and Sappho.
-Early historians:
Herodotus and Thucydides
-Classics:
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
Read about the presocratics, the most relevant ones are Tales, Heraclitus and Parmenides.
-Read about the sophists, Most relevant ones are Protagoras and Gorgias.
-Get into Plato's social context, read Isocrates and Aristophanes.
-Plato
-Aristotle

Then read whatever Greek author you want since you've read enough to understand most of it.