/lit/ - Literature

>>9082709

This is the only other one I got.

>>8860833

This is the real Greek Chart

>>8607585
Gimme some

>>8417431
woops didn't add the pic

>>7982867
There have been like 20+ made, like 3 are worth anything.

>>7881405
(not him) I wouldn't advise it m8e. I've read all of the books up-till Plato at the Philosophy section on pic-related up (except for Xenophon, Menander, and Aristophanes' Knights, Peace, and Acharians; although I have them and planning to read them after Plato and Aristotle and only haven't read them because I've been working on the Greeks for over a year and got impatient). I'm a few dialogues in of the Hackett complete works edition of Plato, reading it from cover to cover, and although I'm far from reaching the Republic, oh boy, let me tell you this is some dense shit that exceeds everything before it on the list (that I've read), and I doubt the Republic will be any better seeing how (from what I've seen through flipping through the pages and hearing people talk about it) it's a pretty long dialogue which is pretty complex because parts of it are told by recantations like in Phaedo, which makes it difficult time-to-time to follow along and know whose speaking.

Characters in the dialogues I've read so far quote Homer's "Iliad' and "Odyssey", and Hesiod's "Theogony" and "Works and Days" all the time that I imagine those who haven't read them wouldn't know what they're talking about, and publishers like Hackett assume you've read them too and don't waste page-space explaining them but only linking you to parts of the books they're quoting from, and I doubt many other publishers are much helpful or try to explain those quotes specifically to those who haven't read them.

I recommend you read up on the works Homer and Hesiod, look at the Wikipedia page of the Trojan cycle, read some short summaries on Wikipedia or some other infosite about Greek lyric poets of the Dark Age, read Herodotus and Thucydides' histories, and look into a few tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripidies before starting Plato, and look into some academic article / summary of the Pre-Socratics and Sophists (I wouldn't recommend reading the entire Oxford or other compilations of them before reading Plato -- they're pretty disappointing as they're mostly all small obscure fragments and testimonies that barely tell you any of their philosophy making the whole thing frustrating and boring to read through before Plato. Although, I imagine, they're more interesting after reading Plato and Aristotle.)

There you are. Word on the street is that Robert Grave's book on Greek Mythology is better than Edith Hamilton's but I can neither confirm nor deny that statement.

>>7825100

>>7453868
Homer is a must.

>>7452014
21

Speaking of learning another language, how good are these Greek learning books shown here?

Any Koine speakers here?

>>7280331

>>7240919
2/?

>>7146102
Start with the Greeks. Really. There's a reason "the Greeks" were enough for all of Europe and Asia Minor for centuries.

>>7127306
The superior list, OP.

>>7112109
3

>>6971448
this one is better for philosophy

>>6961331
nay nay fucking nay lad. This isn't /mu/; literature is not music. You don't start with the meme-trilogy unless you're a walking fucking meme. Read the Greeks or Entry-Core, or read what you want to. We don't play the reccomended reading game here; you can't just read the memes and join our dreams. No, you read some enjoyable works and work out your preffered sorta works and work on reading them. fucking dogposter

Yeah either go with the starter kit (no need to read all of it however) in the sticky, or Start with the Greeks (it's a board meme, but not in the bad way, it's sincerely a good way to get into literature and philosophy the patrish way)

>>6930714
Google Bloom's Western Canon fot the bigg daddy mac of lists. Or just Read the Greeks -> Bible -> Reading Freedom