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>500+ pages
>small font
>no prose
oh god ... oh fuck

>> No.14035784

>penguin classics

>> No.14035786

>translation

>> No.14035788

>>14035726
This wasn't bad up to a certain point to be honest. Better read than Herodotus in my opinion.

>> No.14035809

>>14035788
it's much too factual, let's be real the thing could be substituted by your average documentary

>> No.14035821

>>14035784
Explain this meme pls

>> No.14035828

>>14035821
4chan is contrarian ergo penguin classics is bad

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>>14035726
the strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must.

>> No.14035888

The book is really boring and long, but I was really glad to read it all. It feels like the book was written by a very smart man and you truly understand the whole greek world of the time after reading it. You should read Fustel de Coulanges and ofc Herodotus before though.

>> No.14035896

>>14035888
nice digits but i'm kind of scared that i will be ThatGuy who relates everything in a discussion back to something he read in Thucydides because he's been reading that for the last few motnhs

>> No.14036065

>>14035821
We prefer to read books for men, and not books for penguins.

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>>14035726
>Liked the idea of a paperback Bible printed on normal paper so I bought the Penguin Classics Bible
>tfw it's 2000 pages of walls of 10pt text with every other sentence separated by a verse number
That's what I get for buying a Prot Bible

>> No.14036113

I have the landmark edition

>> No.14036126

Grekoids historians are trash, you should be reading the LATIN BVLL canon

>> No.14036266

>>14035784
Oxford World classics > Penguin

>> No.14036277

>>14035726
I just finished this a couple of days ago and I will start Xenophon's Hellenica which is apparently a continuation of it. What am I in for?

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>>14035821
>>14035828
why read penguin when there are better alternatives

>> No.14036514

>>14036101
>reading a vernacular Bible
>itsanabstractkindofheresy.jpg

>> No.14036531

Tell me /lit/, was Thucydides a Nietzschean?

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>>14036101
shoulda went with oxford
king james, at that

>> No.14036905

>>14036505
But why is Penguin bad?

>> No.14036922

>>14036905

It comes down to editorial tendencies.

>> No.14036994

>>14036531
far from it

>> No.14037003
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>>14036994

Why did Nietzsche like him so much then?

>> No.14037048

>>14037003
I like Nietzsche very much but Nietzsche is far from being Anonian.

>> No.14038506

>>14036277
About to read this comment, what am I in for?

>> No.14038554

>>14036905
It's not. That faggot is just generalizing like the pleb that he is. It all depends on individual editions. The Penguin version of the Peloponessian War is better than the Oxford one, for instance.

>> No.14038560

>>14035726
>no prose
Even this post was written in prose, you stupid nigger.