/lit/ - Literature

>>17904069

here another chart I took from another thread

>>16162238
>posting the shit version

>>14303074
Whoops! You used the wrong chart, so now you’re unfortunately mentally retarded forever. Only way to fix it is to start again with this one.

>>14197177
Read every book on this chart before you even think about moving to the romans

>>9711899
read the greeks before you fuck with things that come after them (anything Christian or after it) because they all reference Greek shit

Start with the greeks.

Hey /lit/, I want to read Homer and think I need a grasp on myth, so I was wondering what would you recommend I read?

OPTIONS
Mythology by Edith Hamilton - Seems like it'd be an easy read, could probably breeze through it, covers Norse and Roman myth too which is a plus since I have no time to read Ovid right now or whatever the Norse stuff is, but it's not really from the horse's mouth so much... still seems like it could be an easy way to emulate what a proper education is, where you have a good grasp of mythology

APOLLODORUS AND HESIOD
I could also read these guys, but they're important works in and of themselves and I'm not sure if I would be better served reading them after Iliad + Odyssey, as I understand the homeric poems to be the culmination of a long tradition of spoken poetry, and the fact that the Greeks' knowledge of myth would mostly have been colloquial, and the fact that I'm interested in getting into Homer ASAP and this stuff would presumably be harder to understand and I want to do them justice

What would you recommend /lit/

>>8209474
1/3

I really enjoy the infograph flow charts of different collections of thought/authors. They were actually what got me to start reading outside of genre fiction, I really enjoy the sense of completion, arbitrary or not. Post your best faggots.

Other infographs besides flow charts also appreciated, as well if anyone wants to contribute OC. Dumping my collection so far.

>LF "works after resume with romans", william gaddis,

>>7866039
Whenever i see someone shitting on the Pope translation I can conclude they are a pleb who has never read homer.

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but this is the one I have saved.

>>7837863
Nah senpai. OVid is latin

>>7492905

>>7240919

If you need to start

>>6481963
And who can read Aristotle without knowing their Plato?

We've done it! This is why you start with the Greeks.

Now everyone lock yourself in your room until you're muttering Sappho in your sleep. Maybe then can you can start to think about reading something more modern, like Seneca.