/lit/ - Literature

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>History in Antiquity, to give you context
Homer
Herodotus
Thucydides
Xenophon
Pausanias

>History/living Rome, more context esp. if you live in the west
Livy
Plutarch
Tactius
Polybius
Seneca

>Philosophers of Antiquity, to give you a foundation
Aristotle (Organon, Metaphysics, Ethics)
Plato (Socratic dialogues, Republic)
Plotinus (Enneads, his work stolen & rebranded by Augustine of Hippo)
Epictetus
Epicurus

>philosophers Enlightenment to the present (my top 5)
Hegel
Hobbes
Rene Girard
Agamben
Hayek

>Contemporary psychologists/mythologists who tie all human experience together
CG Jung
Freud
Joseph Campbell
James George Frazer
Mircea Eliade

And of course, The Bible. There. You now have a solid classics education.

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>>9110798
>Indo-European languages in general aren't worth your time.
Said in an Indo-European language.

>>7397203
Rime isn't even about a ship crew dude

>>7302836
>womanhood must be understood as the flowering of childhood, in its unique place as the ripeness of the human being for sexuality after the years of innocence and before the decay into worldliness and withering.

>>6237638
Because I'm lazy and unintelligent.

I thought maybe a kind anon could help.

Despite the fact that a select few on here will always be idiots, I'm really happy to see that the rest of /lit/ is both rational and open-minded about this topic. I love you guys.