/lit/ - Literature

What is a good introduction to Persia, Greece etc before I read this?

Also should I the start with the greeks entries (Mythology, Iliad, Odyssee) before I read Herodotus?

>>19373656
>finally a man after my of own heart
<3

>odyssey pales in comparison to the kino experience of the iliad
Yea, I would think so, but I am still excited for it. I read the Edith Hamilton version and found it very fun. I was also very impressed with simple scenes like Odysseus finally coming home and seeing the puppy he raised come to be an old dog but he couldn't break his cover and the dog just dying right after that :( . Also, all the wacky shit like the Cyclops escape etc. Illiad is an epic do doubt, but Odyssey is an adventure (ok maybe I shouldn't rate it like that before I read the full version lol).

>herodotus
I'm so very looking forward to Histories... I loved history in high school and trying to discern things like bias, motives, figuring out historical development contexts and making connections between seemingly random things. Going to be crazy as hell doing it to what's basically the first history book. And it's told like a story almost too, so it will be fun :)

Does anyone here dream of finding a new untouched untranslated written work of greek? Imagine if we found a new lost poem or a library... ^o^