Thread 24572190 - /lit/ [Archived: 43 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:19:26 AM No.24572190
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Ancient Greek writers were churning out like 150+ books on every subject known to man during their lifetime and you struggle to write just one.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:22:21 AM No.24572193
>>24572190 (OP)
im neither greek nor ancient
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:24:57 AM No.24572199
no they weren't. the number of books written increased. and their quality decreased proportionately.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:25:25 AM No.24572200
What a dumb thing to say.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:26:26 AM No.24572203
>>24572199
>Aristotle is credited with writing approximately 200 works
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:34:05 AM No.24572207
THEY. HAD. SLAVES.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:35:59 AM No.24572210
>books
you mean chapters?
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:37:41 AM No.24572213
>>24572203
that's one person.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:38:40 AM No.24572214
>>24572210
>Aristotle's surviving works alone would equal about 17 to 22 modern 300-page books.
>If we included all 200 of his original works, including lost ones, the total could have been closer to 100+ modern books
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:49:16 AM No.24572229
>>24572190 (OP)
I have nothing to say.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 12:07:45 PM No.24572252
>>24572190 (OP)
They were also either politicians and when they weren't they were basically NEET's and sometimes estate managers. It was both part of their culture to write and they had all the time in the world to do so without much distraction.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 12:08:26 PM No.24572253
>>24572190 (OP)
And we only give a shit about a handful of them. Makes you think, huh?
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 1:18:18 PM No.24572341
>>24572210
It would've been separate "books," really, scrolls of a certain length.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:08:29 AM No.24574111
And they were so awful that only three and a half survived
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:14:24 AM No.24574126
>>24572190 (OP)
I wrote 6 so far and working diligently on 7 sir !
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 4:16:19 AM No.24574651
>>24572190 (OP)
They didn't have anime girls back then
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 4:54:48 AM No.24574724
>>24572190 (OP)
the majority of 'books' in antiquity were like 10-20 pages long. you can only make a scroll so long.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 5:00:08 AM No.24574731
>>24572213
>Aristophanes wrote 40 plays
>Aeschylus wrote 90
>Euripides wrote 92
>Sophocles wrote 123
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 5:05:50 AM No.24574742
>>24572190 (OP)
I wrote 3.

I have 0 sales
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 5:39:45 AM No.24574792
>>24574731
There really wasn’t much to do back then, and anything else for geniuses and intellectuals would have been torture or boring.