Starting with the Greeks (essentials)

[Anonymous No.17739540]

These are the books I have access to. Is there anything else I should read before moving on to the Romans?

Aesop’s fables
Aeshyus’ seven tragedies
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
Plato: Theaetetus, Gorgias, Phaedo, The Republic
Aristotle: Nicomachean ethics, Politics, Organon, Metaphysics
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Classics library collection (2 volumes)

Greek Thinkers, T. Gomperz
Epicureanism, Tim O´Keefe
The Cynic Philosophers from Diogenes to Julian, Robert F. Dobbin
The Legacy of Greece, Moses I. Finley

[Anonymous No.17739687]

>>17739540
Plotinus compilation by Guthrie.
Patrician choice with that painting btw, I have that saved to my PC as well.

[Anonymous No.17739696]

>>17739540
Dude read what interests you most c'mon you know this in your heart

[Anonymous No.17739702]

I know I'm supposed to hate Bouguereau and others like him for being l'art pompier or whatever but gosh those guys painted such nice women's feet. I hate getting horny over this every time it happens.

[Anonymous No.17739928]

>>17739687
Thanks, I'll look into it and add it to the list.
>Patrician choice with that painting btw, I have that saved to my PC as well.
Hehe, it is all I had at hand in this old PC. Here, you might like this photo I took years ago.
>>17739696
This is a list of what I've collected out of interest in the past few years. I might also take a couple of philosophy courses at my local uni so I need to cover all the necessary bases beforehand.
>>17739702
I might have a few photos of a few statues' feet. Maybe I'll post them later.

[Anonymous No.17740328]

>>17739540
Sophocles(Aedipus Rex)>Euripides(Medea)>Aeschylus(Oresteia)

skip Aesop and Aeschylus

read Hesiod

[Anonymous No.17740379]

>These are the books I have access to
have you read any of them?

[Anonymous No.17740498]

>>17740379
Aesop’s fables, The Odyssey (when I was a kid), Phaedo and Gorgias.
Parts from everything listed by Plato and Aristotle for an introduction to philosophy class in college (+some texts on ancient history). And some parts of The History of the Peloponnesian War for another class.

[Anonymous No.17740736]

>>17739540
Herodotus' Histories, plays by Euripides and Sophocles, other dialogues of Plato, other works of Aristotle, Anabasis (the ones by Xenophon and Arrian respectively), Xenophon's Hellenica, some lyric poetry (only if you really want to), and Hesiod
bonus: Plutarch's Parallel Lives

[Anonymous No.17741209]

>>17740736
Noted, thanks!
>other dialogues of Plato, other works of Aristotle
Wich ones, though?

[Anonymous No.17741323]

>>17739687
>Patrician choice
I am so sick of this phrase, it just used to praise generic 4chan opinions as being “high class”

[Anonymous No.17742104]

>>17741209
not that anon but here's the list for Plato's dialogues I'm following, pulled it from a Sadler youtube video:

Ion, Meno
-Epistemology
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
-Socrate’s trial
Gorgias, Protagoras, Cratylus
-Language and rhetoric
The Republic
Lysis, Symposium, Phaedra
-Friendship and love

I read the Republic before a lot of these which I don't recommend, in fact you could probably put it off until much later since it's such a meaty text.
I can't speak to Aristotle, haven't gotten there myself yet.

[Anonymous No.17742142]

>>17741323
Self-aggrandizing is patricianesque

[Anonymous No.17743699]

>>17739928
Post those statues anon

Also, read more Plato. I recommend early Plato (Apology, Euthyphro, Crito), Symposium, and whatever late Plato is most interesting to you topic-wise. You can skip Aesop's fables unless they're genuinely interesting to you.

[Anonymous No.17743714]

>>17741209
I actually did few hours research on the question of "which Plato" as well as read order, and I came up with pic related (result of several pages of spreadsheets)

[Anonymous No.17743730]

>>17739540
There's way more Greek stuff, but don't feel like you have to read everything chronologically before reading other periods. I'd recommend, along with the other playwrights and philsophers other anons have suggeested, the lyric poets, like Sappho, Anacreon, Theognis, Ibycus, Theocritus, etc.
>>17739702
Kek sorry anon but in the OP those are a beautiful man's feet...

[Anonymous No.17743736]

>>17741209
Forgot to mention they're roughly colored by era.
Early Plato -> Early Middle -> Later Middle ->Late. They're also grouped in terms of narratives/themes/duologies/trilogies

[Anonymous No.17743738]

>>17739702
>>17743730
Oops nevermind I'm wrong. That's a Bacchante, not Bacchus himself. Easy mistake, Bacchus himself is so androgynous.

[Anonymous No.17743746]

>>17743714
>Ion
>Statesman
>Cratylus
>optional at all
Ya dun goof'd

[Anonymous No.17743763]

>>17743746
Ion is optional because it's short and fairly insignificant in his catalogue. It's like the book of Ruth in that regard. It's not as important as any of the other ones I've listed.

Statesman is tedious, but some might enjoy it.

Cratylus is an oft-disliked, uninteresting work of his. Haven't met anyone who enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.17745233]

>>17742104
>>17743714
>>17743736
>>17743763
Got it, thanks!

>>17743699
I only found this one with feet exposed. I believe it is roman, though.

[Anonymous No.17745271]

>>17745233

[Anonymous No.17745692]

>>17745271
Wow, that's beautiful. What statue is that?

[Anonymous No.17745783]

>>17745692
I wish I knew lol. I think I tracked down the source at one point but now my reverse image search is failing me.