/lit/ - Literature

>>11493015
Either Aristophanes or Molière... I can't think of a novel that could rival these.

>>11175991
all of Aristophane's plays, I can't remember of a single one that would have been disappointing or boring.

>>10346256
neck yourself Brad

>>9181320

Let's be honest. You don't need anything in order to read Plato. You can read some Aristophanes, both for fun and to get introduced to Socrates in a non-platonic view (cf. Clouds). But you don't "need" it at all.

Now when it comes to presocratic thinkers, you can read some stuff about them, but keep in mind that we mainly know them through the quotes that Plato and others made ; if you got a nice edition of Plato, the footnotes should be more than enough. And there's only a few dialogues by Plato that require knowledge about the Presocratics - precisely the dialogues that you'll read at the end.

If you were offered the complete plays of any playwright, who would you choose ?