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Anonymous06/23/25, 18:49No.24490510European/White Top 50 Most Renowned Works of Literature List
HELLO I want to make a nice bookshelf with nice hardback editions, the older the better, of the best writing in all history of europe and europe's colonies. Big-brain White Man chud excellence. Chronologically it will start with Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus. Does anyone want to make suggestions. Also please do not include anything published after world war 1. Pretend i only have like 10 years to live and i want to absorb as much worldview insights of the people i share kinship with. Please keep christian things to a minimum so theology stuff that's philosophy rather than bible neurotic nit-picking
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Anon06/23/25, 18:51No.24490515
>Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus
>white
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Anon06/23/25, 18:56No.24490530
>the people i share kinship with
What is your ethnic background?
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Anon06/23/25, 19:03No.24490555
im going to just put some author names in while i think of them and you can all tell me if x is shit or y is missing.thucydides, aristotle, plato, aeschylus, sophocles, euripidesvirgil, ovid, cicero, tacitus, horace, lucretiuschaucer, dante, boccacio, beowulf poetshakespeare, cervantes, montaigne, machiavelli, descartes, voltairehobbes, dickens, goethe, dostoevsky, melville
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Anon06/23/25, 19:09No.24490568
OP doesn't know that the Greek and subsequently Latin writing system is derived from Phoenician.OP doesn't know that many of the Greek classics take inspiration from Ancient Near Eastern folk traditions that spread to Ionia via the Achaemenid Empire.Don't be like OP.
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Anon06/23/25, 19:27No.24490620
The Greeks you say?>Whiteness was associated with femininity. Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazeusae 191-192 has Euripides criticising Agathon as λευκος (white), γυναικοφωνος (woman-voiced), and ‘απαλος (soft). His Ecclesiazeusae 428 similarly has a young man described as λευκος proposing that women should rule the city. Xenophon’s Hellenica 3.4.19 records Spartan soldiers, on seeing that their enemies are λευκος, deciding that fighting against them would be ει γυναιξι δεοι μαχεσθαι (like having to fight women). Euripides’ Bacchae 457 has Pentheus describe Dionysus as λευκος, and also ουκ αμορφος […] ‘ως ες γυναικας (not ill-formed […] as unto women, 453-4). The association is quite consistent.
>Meanwhile, Aristotle’s Politics makes a ‘golden mean’ argument about geography and ethnicity, if not precisely skin colour, claiming that Europeans and people living in cold places are θυμοῦ μέν ἐστι πλήρη, διανοίας δὲ ἐνδεέστερα καὶ τέχνης (‘full of courage but lacking in intelligence and skill’), and thus are too disorganised to conquer their neighbours, whilst Asians are διανοητικὰ μὲν καὶ τεχνικὰ τὴν ψυχήν, ἄθυμα δέ (‘intelligent and skilful, but without courage’, Politics 7, 1327b), and that Greeks occupy the perfect mean between the two and thus have intelligence, skill, and courage. Pale-skinned northern Europeans, then, he represents as inferior.
>As with Ancient Egyptians, Mycenaean Greeks and Minoans generally depicted women with pale or white skin and men with dark brown or tanned skin. As a result, men with pale or light skin, leukochrōs (λευκόχρως, "white-skinned") could be considered weak and effeminate by Ancient Greek writers such as Plato and Aristotle.
>White skin was so strongly associated with women that Aristotle felt compelled to offer a biological explanation: women lose so much blood during menstruation, that it makes them pale.
>The examples given in LSJ indicate that leukos, meaning "white-skinned" (entries II.b and c), is "a sign of youth and beauty" (II.b) when applied to women, but means "weakly, womanish" (II.c) when applied to men.
>Furthermore, Agathon's effeminate good looks feature white skin (leukos, 191). Stehle notes that "His mask was probably white, the standard type for an effete male in Aristophanes"
>In Xenophon pale skin comes to signify 'physical debilitation,'
>Aristophanes’s schema is simple and essentialist: white skin = woman, tan skin = man, and suggesting the opposite = comedy.
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Anon06/23/25, 19:50No.24490676
>I don't care about actually reading anything for pleasure and developing my own taste, I just want to display the same copy-pasted LARPer book list to impress my imaginary friends by epically triggering the woke
Most honest /lit/ poster
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Anon06/23/25, 21:59No.24491006
You barbarians are not "kin" of the Greeks. They saw you as inferior animals.
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Anon06/23/25, 22:04No.24491022
yikes anon, this is not a good look. You should try decolonizing your booshelf, here are my recommendations:The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Midnight: A Gangster Love story by Sister Soulja
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
The 1619 Project by Nicole Hannah-Jones
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHope this helps!
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Anon06/23/25, 23:36No.24491217
Not a single author mentioned ITT is white...