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Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:46 pm to Slippy
Read Iliad & Odyssey in jr. high. That's what piqued my interest in sci-fi/fantasy in my later years.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:47 pm to tigerinthebueche
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I'm my experience, women love well read men.
Mine too, but I haven't seen Kama Sutra mentioned.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:47 pm to LuckySo-n-So
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And I read The Iliad, The Odyssey, and translated The Aeneid from Latin. Also read The Persian Wars and The Peloponnesian Wars in one week for a grad seminar.
We had to translate the Iliad for Greek class and Aeneid for Latin. I think the Aeneid was on the AP test.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:48 pm to Slippy
That book was written thousand of years ago and passed down by word of mouth for generations. It's about wat and a wayward sea voyage, doesn't take an education to read it
Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:51 pm to elprez00
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How does one make it through high school without reading the Illiad?
Plutarch's Lives is far better. So are Aristotle's works on Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:53 pm to Slippy
Liberal arts sucks.
I had to take one philosophy class in college and it was some dumb shite. Cant believe people willingly spend money on learning that.
I had to take one philosophy class in college and it was some dumb shite. Cant believe people willingly spend money on learning that.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:53 pm to Tiger1242
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doesn't take an education to read it
You're uneducated if you don't read books that were written when everyone thought the world was flat, apparently.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 8:57 pm to ByteMe
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when everyone thought the world was flat, apparently.
This is one of those rumors that has no basis in reality. The Greeks knew the world was round. Sailors have observed this simple truth for millenia.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:07 pm to Peazey
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This is one of those rumors that has no basis in reality.
It was sarcasm.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:18 pm to ByteMe
It was sarcasm meant to downplay some of the most influential thinkers in the history of western civilization. The irony that made it sarcasm was put on the need to be familiar with them in order to be considered educated. It was not put on your saying that they were ignorant. Don't be disengenuous.
I don't think you need to have read The Iliad in order to be considered educated. You should at least be vaguely familiar with the people who are the foundation of modern academia in order to have something of a rounded education.
I don't think you need to have read The Iliad in order to be considered educated. You should at least be vaguely familiar with the people who are the foundation of modern academia in order to have something of a rounded education.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:20 pm to Slippy
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or the cupidity of today’s educational institutions
I love LSU too.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:24 pm to ByteMe
I was never required to read it in high school. But I read both the Iliad and Odyssey at my Liberal Arts college... where I got my physics degree. 
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:42 pm to hojo
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Monkeys typing Shakespeare, monkeys typing Shakespeare.
A ....something... by any other name...
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:43 pm to Breesus
Read does not equal understood.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:45 pm to yankeeundercover
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Keep your liberal bullshite links to yourself...
@ you for thinking that the WSJ and the frickING ILLIAD are liberal.Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:54 pm to Peazey
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It was sarcasm meant to downplay some of the most influential thinkers in the history of western civilization.
Of course
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The irony that made it sarcasm was put on the need to be familiar with them in order to be considered educated. It was not put on your saying that they were ignorant. Don't be disengenuous.
It was SARCASM, bitch!
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You should at least be vaguely familiar with the people who are the foundation of modern academia in order to have something of a rounded education.
I do...get over yourself.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:12 pm to SabiDojo
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Unless you read it in Ancient Greek, I'm not impressed.
This.
"Oh wow-ah, you translated the english version of latin back to the latin version of english, u must b soo smart!!"
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:13 pm to ByteMe
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So that is all the great works in History and that is what should be required reading for all schools?
No, they are simply the greatest works in a myriad of cultures. I could literally add over a dozen others that I would like kids to read. These are just the ones I would say are the most valuable in the classroom setting. Oh, and yes, I do think these should be required reading. Or at least, pieces. I read them all, or at least, most of them. The Ramayana was not in school, and I have only read pieces, not it's entirety yet. As I said, it would be the most questionable.
Faust - Germany
The Ramayana - India
One Thousand and One Nights - Tales from all over the Islamic empire, and regions touching the empire.
Divine Comedy - the preeminent work of "modern" Italy
The Aeneid - the greatest of the Latin works.
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