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23001366 No.23001366 [Reply] [Original]

Is the iliad a good place to start with the greeks?
I just read the epic of gilgamesh and was wondering what to tackle next

>> No.23001808
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mmmmmmh yes yes

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Yes

>> No.23001823

>>23001808
>>23001815
Uhhh thanks

>> No.23001832

>>23001366
What do you think?

>> No.23001872

>>23001815
lol

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>>23001808
No.

>> No.23003712

>>23001366
Yes, it is. What'd you think of Gilgamesh?

>> No.23004287

There's literally a sticky thread answering this question are you retarded

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Pretty much, yep. Here's a helpful chart, but you can replace "Greek Epic Fragments" and the Trojan War history book with something like Anabasis, Argonautica, the Greek biographies of Plutarch, other philosophers like Epicurus, etc

>> No.23004429

>>23004385
read Cowpers translation of the Iliad, no Fagles.Fagles is a great scholar, but a bad translator of Homer.

>> No.23004441

>>23004429
Why Cowper instead of Lattimore?

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>> No.23004459

>>23004441
Cowper is as close as an English speaker can get to reading it in the original Greek. he has "ommitted nothing. invented nothing". Lattimore takes too many liberties with the text.