/lit/ - Literature

>>19280963
The greeks

>>19280963
Hesiodm Homeric Hymns, Homer, Heraclitus, Herodotus.

>>19280963
Homer, the tragedians, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle at the very least

>>19280972
>Hesiodm
The fuck?
Hesiod

Plato and Aristotle are not required reading*

>>19280963
Start with the Iliad

>>19280990
Eat shit and die

>>19280990
Good afternoon butters

>>19280963
start with the pre socratics

>>19280963
Newfriend let me give you some advice before starting. Learn how to filter tripfags, then go ahead and filter that ghastly creature who posted above. Then start with Plato.

>>19280972
don’t listen to this whore, Plato should be the first thing you read after Homer

>>19280990
Yes they are you retarded dyke
Don’t listen to her OP, read Plato and Aristotle as soon as you finish the essentials

There are many charts on how to do this

>>19280963
If you want to read the works that have a big influence on fiction literature and are referenced often, then just read The Iliad and The Odyssee. If you don't know much about mythology, it might be good to read a book about that, too.

>>19280990
wtf are you smoking

>>19280963
The Greek Myths by Robert Graves or Mythology by Hamilton.
Having an understanding of greek myths is a great base.

Learn greek or you will never gonna make it

>>19280990
disgusting pseud

>>19280963
the only answer
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic

>>19280990
how would you know? you haven't even begun to read them. why are you even giving advice here?? you haven't read any of this shit

>>19280963
Philosophy: Heraclitus -> Parmenides -> Plato -> Aristotle -> Plotinus -> Pseudo-Dionisus
History: Herodotus -> Tucidides -> Xenophon -> Polybius -> Plutarch -> Ana Komnene
Literature: Homer -> Sappho -> Anavreon -> Pindar -> A sampling of the other lyric poets -> Cavafy -> Kazantzakis

>>19280963
just watch HBO's Rome season 1 and season 2 and the rest is history

>>19282583
this actually is an exceptionally good show

>>19280963
Check the sticky.

>>19280990
based

>>19280968
Fpbp

>>19280990
You're fucking ugly

>>19280990
yikes

Surely someone has the chart saved?

>>19280963
Don't allow yourself to get memed. Read what you want.

But the Iliad by Fagles is great.

>>19280963
Read diogenes lmao

>>19280963
official reading list:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Complete Poems of Sappho
Aesop's Fables
Lysistrata
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Prometheus Bound
The Suppliant Maidens
The Persians
The Seven Against Thebes
Antigone
Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
The Eumenides
Medea
The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Republic
Symposium
The Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
Poetics
The Histories

>>19283713
*left out The Argonautica

Dont. You will be reading a translation of a translation of a translation.

Read something in its original language

>>19283726
this is a brainlet cope take to excuse yourself from having to actually read these works

>>19281096
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>>19282133
The OP did NOT ask where to begin with PHILOSOPHY.
Why can’t Johnny read yet?

>>19282432
This. Comprehensive, yet maybe too much for OP, which is why I made up the H list

>>19283749
>The OP did NOT ask where to begin with PHILOSOPHY.
yea he asked where to start with the greeks, retard. can YOU not read?

>>19283749
What possibly reason would you have for not including Plato and Aristotle in any "starting with the Greeks" list? Why would you even attempt to imply that its somehow common sense that they should be separated for god knows what reason?

>>19283787
Because I already listed Heraclitus

>>19283773
Oh, you have a mental condition, I see.

>>19283821
>I already listed Heraclitus
why? I thought he didn't ask for philosophy

>>19280990
Good way to expose yourself. Newfags listen, this is who will appear on threads and derail them an this is the content of its character. Let yourself be adviced.

You need to learn to like the Greeks first before diving too deep. Read Homer then read the tragedians. If you're not hooked after that you're not going to pay enough attention to properly digest the philosophers and lesser known figures.

>>19283868
Newfag. You and yours are derailing it.
My advice was a mnemonic I’ve given before
Start with a preSocratic, but don’t get bogged down with philosophy
UNLESS YOU WANT TO. If you do, you read Plato’s Socrates etc.
bitch

>>19283890
why even pretend you've read the greeks and have any license to give advice here? we all know you haven't

>>19283917
Why recommend Homer before Hesiod, anon?
Clearly many anon ITT haven’t read them. Some jest read the Iliad and liked it. I’m here to HELP

>>19283988
>I’m here to HELP
>already proved beyond a doubt that she shares her strong opinions and tries to "help" by giving advice about books she literally hasn't read

if you follow this >>19282432 you are NGMI
start with the undecyphered linear a fragments