/lit/ - Literature

>sophists are bad because... uhhhh... they just are OK???

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>N-NOOOO MUH HOMER IS HIGHBROW YOU CANT JUST COMPARE HIM WITH ANIME NOOO

>Start with the Greeks
Why? Can some one give me an actual answer?
>So you can understand the heckin' referencerinos!!!!11!1!!1
Surely there's a better reason than that right?
Whatever work I'm reading should stand on it's own and even if I needed to "get" a reference, wouldn't a synopsis of whatever Greek work they're referencing suffice?
I mean, it's not even necessary to read something to get a reference. I know most of the Greek gods and their stories but I haven't read any Greek mythology except for The Iliad, the Odyssey, and Jason and the Argonauts.
I've already read a lot of philosophy just fine without having read anything more than the Republic, so why do people recite this same old silly line?