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Liberate tuteme ex Excelsior!

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 No.2141

Can I get a list of must read books from 4000BC-1800s?
I'm looking for good, old books
I'll start

Beowulf-Unknown
Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer
L'Mort De Arthur-unkown
The Iliad and The Odyssey- Homer
Shakespeare's Complete Works- Shakespeare
Prose and Poetic Eddas- Unknown

 No.2142

Why not go take a look at all those identical threads on /pol/, /his/ and who knows how many other boards?

 No.2147

Some suggestions.

Some of Plato's Dialogues, though you could just read them all
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation
Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony, The Either/Or
Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov

 No.2149

>not starting with gilgamesh


shiggy diggy.

 No.2151

Kalevala is really underappreciated tbh

 No.2176

Plutarch's Hero's Lives.

 No.2189

The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Parallel Lives by Plutarch
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

 No.2196

Swift, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Camões, Cervantes

 No.2411

Somehow I suspect OP was looking for stories not academia but I suppose we can add:
Tao Te Ching
The Art of War

To that academic list

>>2147
>Plato's Dialogues
I dare you to read ED's article on Socrates here:
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Socrates

I rather like it for its unorthodox perspective.

To get back to stories (these are all epics):
The Story of Sinuhe
A Thousand and One Nights
Šāh-nāma

 No.4146

If you read the Illiad, then you might also be interested in reading Batrachomyomachia, which was an ancient greek spoof on it.

 No.4147

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True History, by Lucian of Samosata.

 No.4148

some rabelais?

 No.4165

>>2141

>L'Mort De Arthur-unknown


Is this the off-brand version of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur?

 No.5091

There's the epic of Atrahasis which was a precursor to the story of Noah's ark.


 No.5093

les miserables


 No.5099

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It has its faults, modern works are more accurate. Yet, I think this is still the best translation we have as judged by style, clarity, and dramatic impact.

Whatever else Hobbes is known for this is one of his best.


 No.5117

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Táin Bó Cúailnge

Titus Livius: Historia romana

Njáls Saga


 No.5150


 No.5260

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Mahabharata - Vyasa (trans Ganguli): Five prince fight to win back their kingdom, occasionally gods pop in.

Ramayana - Vamiki (trans Griffith): A prince, his brother, and a demi-god monkey try to rescue the prince's wife.

Jataka tales - Unknown: Buddhist fables

Buddha Carita - Unknown: Buddha's biography

Arthashastra - Chanakya: How to rule a kingdom by autocracy

Manusmriti - Manu: Laws in ancient India


 No.5262

>>5260

Do you think a non indian would or could appreciate them in the same way?


 No.5266

Oedipus Rex

King James Bible

The City of God

Leviathan

Dante's Inferno

Paradise Lost

War and Peace

Summa Theologica

Origin of the Species

The Prince (Machiavelli)

The Wealth of Nations

The Rights of Man


 No.5284

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>>5262

Yes, except the last two. You should read Arthashastra only if you like Plato and Machiavelli.

The first two are essentially "hero's journeys" like Odyssey, the suggested translations are good. The 3rd is like Aesop's fables. The fourth is good if you are interested in Buddhism.

There are some abridged versions which tones down the religiosity and are targeted at younger and western audience but that make them somewhat lacking. There are also some comics and anime. You can read them and go back to the source material, if they interest you.

(Recommended reading order:)

18 Days by Grant Morrison : A graphic novel based on Mahabharata, covers only 18 days of war. It is missing the background.

Ramayan 3392 A.D. by Deepak Chopra and Shekhar Kapur: Graphic Novel. A Asimovian polemics retelling of retelling of Ramayana.

Ravanayan by Vijayendra Mohanty: Graphic Novel. Ramayana retold from the POV of the villain.

Sita Sings the Blue by Nina Paley: Flash animation. Ramayana retold from an alternative POV of the damsel in distress.


 No.5435

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

It feels quite “modern”, though.

Can't judge which English translation is better. Tradition of skipping “Seneca greets Lucilius” at the beginning of every letter bothers me.


 No.5451

Reflections of a russian statesman - Pobedonostsev


 No.5471

>>5451

Derp.


 No.6738

Are we including poetry too?

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám


 No.6745

>>5266

>Dante's Inferno

>not the whole comedy




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