/lit/ - Literature

>>8539258
Unfortunately I only have my version which I've marked up, but it's all there except for the top row which was just original greek versions of homer and books on learning greek.

I started coming to /lit/ about a year ago, and while I enjoyed figuring out all this stuff for myself it helps having charts like these to guide you along. And now that I'm mostly done with the greeks/romans and moving on to more modern stuff, it's nice to pass on what I've figured out. While I'm at it (and since the lit chart is shit) here's my recommendations for the Romans. For epic poetry, the big one is Virgil and his Aeneid, which is the story of Aeneas (one of the heroes on the trojan side in the illiad) who fled troy for italy where he became the first roman hero and the ancestor of the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. This was written during Augustus' reign, and so Virgil made parallels between Aeneas "restarting" the Trojan people and Augustus bringing the roman people back to order after the civil war. Like I said earlier, Virgil was largely influenced by Homer. Then there's Ovid and his work the Metamorphosis, which is essentially a poetic mythological history of the world. Starting with the creation (based on Hesiod), then a telling of common myths (Narcissus, Echo, Pyramus and Thisbe on which Romeo and Juliet was likely based), then the Trojan War and eventually leading up to Julius Caesar. The main theme of course is change: "I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities". For history my favorite is Polybius and his history of the Punic wars, then there's Livy which covers from the legendary founding to I believe his time, but a lot of his work is lost except for about the first 40 or so books. These next few names I haven't read yet, but they're in my to read list: Suetonius, Tacitus, Herodian. Cicero and Seneca for philosophy, particularly political philosophy.

>>8535560
I started with the greeks