/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10159254]

>reading the Greeks and Romans
>learning Attic Greek
>enjoy reading literary fiction and "good" autobigraphies
>read political essays
>interested in Paganism; Hellenism & Chinese Folk Religion; read related literature

Am I on the right path? Is there something else I should be reading?

[Anonymous No.10159271]

You are on the path mon frere.

[Anonymous No.10159292]

>>10159254
how hard is learning greek from scratch? Feels bad to read Homer in translation

[Anonymous No.10159309]

>>10159292
Pretty difficult considering there is no word order. The alphabet is easier than one might think, though.

[Anonymous No.10159315]

>>10159254
>Is there something else I should be reading?

[Anonymous No.10159333]

>>10159309
Well I know the alphabet from maths. Is learning modern greek with duolingo a good start?

[Anonymous No.10159338]

>>10159254
You’re doing well but reading more short fiction is the patrician path.

[Anonymous No.10159342]

>>10159333
Never learned modern Greek so I wouldn't know.

[Anonymous No.10159361]

You should be reading whatever you want..

[Anonymous No.10159364]

>>10159254
Rene Girard's The Scapegoat
The Bible

[Anonymous No.10159434]

>>10159333
Modern Greek has many differences with its Ancient counterpart vocabulary wise, so it might confuse you rather than help you.

[Anonymous No.10159555]

>>10159333
No. That's like learning English to read Beowulf or learning Italian to read Virgil. Instead, study Mastronarde's textbook on Attic Greek, however, if you just want to read Homer, then work through Clyde Pharr's textbook on Homeric Greek.

The perk of learning Attic Greek, however, is the ability to get access to a greater quantity of texts such as Plato, Aristotle, the playwrights, and the historians of Athens. From Attic Greek, it's pretty easy to work back to Homeric Greek or forward to the Koine Greek of the Bible and Plutarch. Traditionally classics students start with Classical Latin and then study Attic Greek. From there, they pursue any further interests they have whether it be medieval Latin for the early Church Fathers or something more obscure such as Aeolic Greek for Sappho. But Classical Latin and Attic Greek alone offer a vast quantity of literature.

>>10159309
>no word order
wat

[Anonymous No.10159571]

>>10159555
>wat
You determine the subject and object by the article, not by the order the words come in.