/lit/ - Literature

I'm an amateur reader. I have been reading more thoroughly for about a year and all my readings have been very erratic. I feel I need a more solid background.


I am going to start a systematic and chonological reading. I guess this way some time in the future I will appreciate better more recent literature.

So I decided to start with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. I plan to go later for Plato and move on in chronological order, probably the Bible and so on.

Any advices on how to approach Homer's epics?

Also, would any of you advice to read Gilgamesh before or after the Bible?