We can't read 90% of the Greeks because their works are lost

I don't, it literally keeps me up at night.

It's not like you'd read them anyways. This is the sentiment of a hoarder

I like to think we got the best of the tragedians, of Sophocles 100 or so lost plays I imagine quite many have to be stinkers.

I’m kept up at night because of the fact that I can’t read all of the Epic Cycle

I'll never get over the fact that every time we talk about "Greek Comedy" we're literally just talking about the work of one guy.

The truth is, the ancients were just as intelligent as us, and their great men often greater than ours. We fucked up by abandoning virtue, by treating morality as a set of arbitrary rules rather than as a means to happiness and advancement as a species. Society feels like it's stumbling because it is - we're not making progress where it counts. There is a path to making a better generation and we are not following it.

this.

Don't we have 2 almost complete comedies by Menander?
And lots of fragments and commentary on others.

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Isn't it just Perseus and Hercules books that are missing?

We can't read them, but we can infer a lot of knowledge from writers who studied in the library. Iamblichus, for example, spent decades in the library. It stands to reason that from his work we can derive some influence from lost texts.

No, it's literally all of the trojan war that is not covered by the Homeric poems, plus their returns and Odysseus' death

Nah you're thinking of something else

if they were good they would have survived

They are not near as good as Homer's shit though

Well, that is definitely not true. People in the ancient world were not worried over people thousands of years later being able to read their work. We know of plenty of good stuff, via fragments and references, that don't exist anymore

I'll never read lives of famous whores

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in music it’s that way
or, you could think of the aborted, or lives cut short
glass is half empty or half full

>20% of lit cannot sleep at night thinking about scrolls

Every fucking time

Prepare to cry
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Cycle

It's a shame that they didn't all survive, but I'm very thankful that we have the Illiad and the Odyssey

i'd do it.
hellenic individualism beats christian socialism any day of the week.

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had a reliable prof teach about the Minoan civilization wiped out
blew my mind
they were so advanced

Yeah, pretty crazy how quickly they were destroyed. I've heard one theory where the Minoan civilization is what Plato refers to as Atlantis

But how do we do that? The forces outlined by Smith are pretty much unstoppable. No amount of litigation or enforcement in favor of morality laws can overcome economic incentives to meet consumption demands from The Many.

God preserves what needs to be preserved

This means all those texts are hogwash, only the one which remain are of value

Dedicate one's life to killing Christians (not recommended, illegal)

This

>We fucked up by abandoning virtue, by treating morality as a set of arbitrary rules rather than as a means to happiness and advancement as a species.
So arbitrary rules?

is that true for the aborted as well

The aborted are in heaven, and the aborter will go to hell

How do some people write so well? :(

>individualism
Greeks actively denied private life. Man is a political animal, he exists through the city.

are they still undeveloped fetuses in heaven?
are there a bunch of bloody blobs of cells hanging out in heaven?

i am speaking, of course, of the ideals of greek philosophers

KEK
and I’m Christian
Go deep!

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As is your interlocutor, my boy.

>Greeks actively denied private life
certainly not the likes of epicurus, who thought of private life as the only good life