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What is the correct order to read the books in this chart? I've already read Mythology by Edith Hamilton, now I should read The Trojan War: A New History, because it's a preparation for the Iliad. I know it may seem like a silly question, but this chart can be a little confusing at times, since it has several color guides derived from the "main" books, so I am in doubt about which ones to read first. Thanks in advance

>> No.22336277

>>22336240
Don't worry about order too much, just read what interests you. But the guide would reccomend you read the history book now

>> No.22336448

>>22336240
Read Edith Hamilton then read Fustel de Coulanges La cité antique then read Iliad, then the odyssey then read Hesiod, then read Herodotus then read Xenophon if you want then read eschyles then read sophocles then read euripides if you want then skip the presocratics then read plato in this order >>22328882 then reread plato then rereread plato then skip arist*tle then read commentaries on plato

>> No.22337202

>>22336240
I thought oranges colored books were meant to be read afterwards i.e. Illiad -> Trojan War

>> No.22337830

>>22337202
I thought that too the first time I saw the chart, but the subtitle is saying that the book is a preparation for before the Iliad, so I started to be in doubt about the other books
>>22336277
Thanks

>> No.22337935

>>22336240
Whoever made this chart is a nigger where is Aeschylus, why Hesiod after Sophocles where is Xenophon

>> No.22338008

>Reading the iliad before the odyssey
Tired of this meme chart

>> No.22338011

>>22336240
man, aristotle is tough stuff. replace w xenophon if you are a retard like me.

>> No.22338017

>>22338008
Why

>> No.22338023

>>22336240
They're all gayreeks, you can read them in any order. You'd probably want to start with actual primary sources though before reading the secondary sources though

>> No.22338039

>>22338023
So i can start Aristotle before Plato? What a shit take

>> No.22338093

>>22338039
They have a different approach to their logic, so yeah sure why not

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22338293

This is where I am, reading Sophocles now.
I'll think after I will go to the History of the Peloponnesian Wars then the first philosophers