/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19166485]

>Xenophon’s “disguise” as a man of action earned philosophy a more respectful hearing in his own as well as other ages. But that same reputation proved to be a stumbling block for scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who were unable to imagine that a military or practical man could possess a genuine understanding of Socratic philosophy.

[Anonymous No.19166840]

>>19166485
That's his best book, an escape adventure. His writing feels thin otherwise (comparatively speaking); he's no Plato; no Thucydides.

[Anonymous No.19168462]

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
– Thucydides

[Anonymous No.19168484]

>>19168462
I don’t think Thucydides said that

[Anonymous No.19168500]

>>19168462
This is the same tier as quoting a character in a Shakespeare play as Shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.19168514]

>>19168484
>>19168500
It only takes a simple Google search, but I'm sure you know better.

[Anonymous No.19168535]

>>19168514
Yeah, Thucydides didn't say that, that was attributed to him around 2012.

[Anonymous No.19168562]

>>19168462
Ur a dumb faggot. Please die

[Anonymous No.19168580]

>>19168462
>waaa professional soldiers are stupid you can't specialize
Unironically the stupidest shit to come out of anyone, ever.

[Anonymous No.19168604]

>>19166840
Cyropaedia is kino.

[Anonymous No.19169062]

>>19166840
>He doesn't know about the Œconomicus and Cynegeticus.

[Anonymous No.19169087]

>>19169062
>the Œconomicus

Was it autism?

>“‘How good it is to keep one's stock of utensils in order, and how easy to find a suitable place in a house to put each set in, I have already said. [19] And what a beautiful sight is afforded by boots of all sorts and conditions ranged in rows! How beautiful it is to see cloaks of all sorts and conditions kept separate, or blankets, or brazen vessels, or table furniture!
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Xen.+Ec.+8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0212

[Anonymous No.19169099]

>>19168462
It wasnt suppose to be an instruction manual.....

[Anonymous No.19169141]

>>19169087
organization is based

[Anonymous No.19169153]

>>19169099
And yet...

[Anonymous No.19169286]

>>19169087
Great book. Skip to the part before where the explains the economic utility of organisation and tidiness with the analogy of the Phoenician boatman. If everything has a place you can access it quickly and immediately know what is missing or low on supply and plan accordingly. Organisation and tidinesss increases information efficiency that every homestead and enterprise needs to best function.

[Anonymous No.19169288]

>>19169087
It was supposed to be an instruction manual.....

[Anonymous No.19170987]

>>19168462
based

[Anonymous No.19171008]

>>19169087
Socrates was just the sperg wrangler for Athens

[Anonymous No.19171012]

I like The Warriors

[Anonymous No.19171016]

Can anyone ID that knife?

I want to buy one

[Anonymous No.19171341]

>>19171016
Looks like a page-cutter; a little ironic because unneeded for a Loeb or most any other modern book; I have picked up a few antique books with uncut pages however: you a collector of cheap old volumes, anon?

[Anonymous No.19171723]

get the landmark xenophon

[Anonymous No.19171894]

>>19171341
>Looks like a page-cutter
lmao
>>19171016
It's the Fairbairn–Sykes trench knife from WWI. Some think it is the best fighting knife ever made.

[Anonymous No.19172416]

Reminder that the Landmark of Xenophon's Anabasis comes out in two months. Get your pre-orders in now if you want to part of the /lit/ read-along in December and January.

[Anonymous No.19172418]

>>19169286
Xenophon was the Marie Kondo of Classical Greece, lmao

[Anonymous No.19172850]

Bump for a based man.

[Anonymous No.19173052]

>>19171894
Not fighting, best for talking down people from behind. You don't duel with it. You stab their subclavian artery