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[Anonymous No.16251696]

How did the greeks manage to develop a rich written culture before everyone else?

[Anonymous No.16251705]

It's like how fags are apt to write poetry; they had nothing else to offer the world.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16251713]

Oral traditions transcribed and reasonably preserved. Like everywhere else.

[Anonymous No.16251717]

>>16251705
Yeah like why didn’t they just learn to rap

[Anonymous No.16251774]

>>16251713
Tragedies and comedies were often edited by the authors and didn't strictly follow their oral source material.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16252125]

>>16251774
And johnny Cash added the spanish horn section to June Carter’s Ring of Fire when he covered it.

[Anonymous No.16252176]

>>16252125
What about historical accounts & prose works? were they also made to be sung orally?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16252242]

>>16252176
Just imagine all the stories that had come and gone throughout pre-recordable history.
They likely created cheatsheet symbolism on parchments...

[Anonymous No.16252176,1]

>>16251696
To create higher civilization, you need a critical mass of people with the right genetics. For masses of people, that would make Egypt, Assyria, ancient Greece, and areas around what is now India.

Of these, R1B haplotype prevailed in the region where philosophy first developed (in Greek Anatolia).

[Anonymous No.16252324]

>>16252242
>Just imagine all the stories that had come and gone throughout pre-recordable history
they were assimilated into the mythical accounts unless you think the Trojan war was merely fiction

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16252335]

>>16252324
>Trojan war was merely fiction
I trust Finley’s reconstruction. There wasn’t a war but a series of raids

[Anonymous No.16252338]

>>16252335
my point still stands

[Anonymous No.16252345]

>>16252335
you got exposed hard lol

[Anonymous No.16252350]

>>16251696
I would say it's more-so well preserved culture, which I would guess has to do with them being largely on the periphery of a highly active economic and cultural area.

[Anonymous No.16252360]

>>16251717
Socrates
You need to suck deez
Did you say somethin, or was it a sneeze?
I do think can tell, you fat ball of grease
Maybe I oughta bust you in da teef
Look at you! You show up unkempt
Lived yo whole like in regret
PreSocratic? How bout post-Socratic
Anything better than you automatic

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16252365]

>>16252338
So it appears that I’ve agreed with you as far as this period and time goes.
Was there a debate?

[Anonymous No.16252385]

>>16252365
lay down the weed

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16252591]

>>16252365
>>16252385
Oh. I meant time period and place. Distracted

[Anonymous No.16252887]

>>16252360

[Anonymous No.16252888]

>>16251696
Nice bait and homosexual projection faggot, get a life and stop shitting up the catalog.

OFF-topic Sage.

[Anonymous No.16252891]

>>16252360
epic rap battles of history!

Socrates vs. Thrasymachus

[Anonymous No.16252970]

>>16251696
they stratified logos on language; a pretty good move for developing arts; a pretty bad move repressing human logos itself.

[Anonymous No.16252992]

>>16251696
>before everyone else

Mesopotamia, a product of alien engineering

[Anonymous No.16253475]

>>16252335
bernard knox.... no thanks

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16253873]

>>16253475
>bernard knox
It’s just an introduction

[Anonymous No.16253909]

>>16251696
>before everyone else
Retard

[Anonymous No.16253914]

>>16251696
Because they had writing before everyone else
I bet native americans would have written dope books but they couldnt figure out writing, so