/lit/ - Literature

Dear /lit/,

Can someone briefly explain to me how to write thesis. I know this board is for reading.
I am assuming people who reads knows how to write thesis. Please help, thanks.

> hasn't read Hómēros in the original greek
> thinks Shakespeare is objectively the greatest writer of all time and this should be self-evident to anyone who has read his works
> doesn't think Hómēros could have existed, must have been the contribution of many writers
> Shakspeare definitely wrote all of the works attributed to him and even though we have no manuscripts and different editions of his plays conflict with one other
> no way did others actors and playwrights shape, edit and rework his texts

Bardolators are a funny bunch.

Watch how they squirm when you point out the obvious fact that Macbeth was written by Thomas Middleton.

Is loyalty Homer's central theme?

Orders drawn from honest men
To do their bidding, a boy not ten
The true keeper of honesty and love
He'll soon get his chainlink gloves.

For importance and status he will kill
And family honor, which once stood still
now will grow from nourishing blood
what one will do, to satisfy god.
And keep him happy, fat and full
the holy sacrifice our not ten bull
For justice and tiding, avarice and need
No one asks, yet all receive

Our boy of ten, pure and zen
He sheds such blood, we can now be free.

Loose poetry thread. No defined styles, just slight rhymes and such.

Has anyone taken it upon themselves to read Ancient Greek literature? I'm looking to begin but i don't know where to start, and where to go beyond Homer.

Sup /lit/. So I'm going to start reading various Greek philosophers, starting with pre-Socrates ones. What I want to know is, should I read Greek mythology beforehand, such as the works of Homer and Hesiodos?

>mfw this thread

How do I get into library.nu?
I'm not smart like Homer and there is no registration link.

>>2288589
>making statues of a literary tradition

>>1926101
Homer was the great classical poet, and man of letters, period.

Combine the reputations of William Shakespeare and James Joyce and you may have some idea of what this man achieved and the unparalleled extent he influenced his culture. In the latter Hellenistic Age (i.e., just before the Roman Empire, during the Greek dynasty in Alexandria), the so-called Alexandrian Age's ideology was predicated on the fact that this man's poetry could not be equalled.

Read both the Iliad and the Odyssey (and do both in the Greek, if you can, translations tend to suck), and do so without any hesitation. Both feature superb verse and more moments of compelling myth than you might think from a standard knowledge of their narratives. The Odyssey is probably the more innovative and interesting of the two, but also, maybe second in signficance to its brother, whose warrior ideation was the foundation of Greek thought on war and glory. Homer was also one of the earliest Greek poets, writing c.8th Century BC (to put that in perspective, Athenian hegemony was only established 5-4th Century BC), an almost primordial time for Hellenistic culture. The only other poet from that time whose work survives to this day is Hesiod who writes genealogies and etiologies of the gods, not particularly good fun to read, but maybe interesting.

Homer

Why does this bugger get so much credit when it comes to literature history? He just stole everything from the Mesopotamians.

Whats your opinon of homer?
Is Illiaden or Odyssey written well?
Was they a litterally oral tradition passed down before what is claimed to be named Homer wrote them down and refined them into something epic and new?
Homer is suppose to be a oral tradition, to have somebody to attribute the works too? Right?
He might have existed, but he did not write both works?

Dear /lit/, I am having my great talk to my class as a fellow student under assignment about Homer.
Don't worry, I am mostly there, and the assignment is for the next class I am going to have today (in roughly an hour).
What I want is to become wiser, and hear the opinion of wise readers :P

>>1157570
Now you're just being silly.

>>1010338

>it's like starting ... in the middle of a scene.

Problem?