/lit/ - Literature

>learning Latin because that's what you're supposed to do
>far more interested in Greek lit

>>17194595
you should do it now

reading this thread you can see Spengler making broad strokes in order to differenciate classical western culture with modern western culture, he may be onto something with his description but nonetheless you can see the biased nationalism that blinded him, the fact that the faustian man can still identify values and virtues of ancient greek and rome and embraced them tells you that it isn´t as foreign (culture, ideas, society, sports, military) as Spengler wanted you to think it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByvtBQoCbGE

>>17074129
I'm on a quest to reading anything I can, related to the greek hero achilles
I already finished the illiad and the epic cycle fragments
I'm currently on the post homerica, after I'm done I'll be reading:
the odyssey
the achilleis
the achilleid
the bibliotheca
the aeneid
the metamorphoses of ovid
the metamorphoses of antoninus liberalis
hyginus' fabulae
and philostratus heroica
i will also read the orphic hymns after I'm done because I find orpheus interesting

>all those lost plays

Greece

Post and discuss books to learn a foreign language

Will definitely read
>What is Property - Proudhon
>The Conquest of Bread - Kropotkin
>El Quijote - Cervantes
>Complete Fiction - Juan José Arreola

Want to read but don't know if I will
>The Odes of Pindar
>Complete Aeschylus
>Complete Sophocles
>Anthology of Pessoa's poetry
>The William Gass Reader

There are other things I also want to read, but they are in my kindle and I don't remember what they are.

>guy at work says he likes Greek mythology
>ask him if he's read The Iliad as I recently read it and enjoyed it a lot
>gives me a weird look and says no he has not
>goes on to talk about how much he likes Disney's Hercules

>Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
>driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
>the hallowed heights of Troy.

μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος

οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηkε,

πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν

ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε kύνεσσιν

οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή,

ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντε

Ἀτρεΐδης τε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν kαὶ δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς.

>>13471021

here kid

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Carl-Jung-mean-by-the-statement-People-don-t-have-ideas-ideas-have-people

Now start with the greeks or get of my board

>tfw a hairy oiled greek man will never throw a spear at you
why even live brehs

>a sweaty oiled muscly bearded greek man will never throw a spear at you
why even live?