/lit/ - Literature

All of them.

Twice.

None of them.

Twice.

>The Divine Comedy by Dante

Read Inferno. There was a lot of underlying political messages that didn't seem relevant to me.

Also, The Epic of Gilgamesh? Read this. Dunno if it counts or not.

just The Republic.

damn, am i a complete pleb?

>>1208482
That slipped my mind.
>>1208480
If you're telling the truth, you're a better man than I.

>>1208489
>you're a better man than I
for having different tastes.

please kill yourself.

>>1208487
I wouldn't say that exactly. I've read a lot of these, but I'm ashamed of how many I haven't. I need to get busy. I just started studying Medieval lit though.

>>1208493
These are some of the influential books of all time. Taste is not a matter of question. It's a matter of serious literary study or casual reading.

>>1208493

Maybe they share a similar taste but he finds that he isn't as dedicated. You catty insecure faggot.

Only two of them,
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Republic by Plato

I keep meaning to look into Homer's Odyssey.

>>1208493

I would love to find you and just beat the shit out of you, you disgusting piece of shit

>>1208509

>>1208513
no, he's right. im sub-human filth & just a burden upon anyone i encounter.

>>1208524
lol it's true

>>1208526
you dont need to tell me, im living it.

>>1208524
I am in accord sir.

The Odyssey, The Oedipus Cycle, The Aeneid, Confessions ,The Divine Comedy, Le Morte D'Arthur, Arabian Nights, and a bit of Canterbury Tales.

>>1208479
Only read Platon's Politeia (i guess that Republic is the English title), Confessions of Augustinus and Canterbury Tales.
Dante is on my list, though. I'll hopefully pick up Homer and Vergil one day, too.

A few texts not on your list include
the Prince by Macchiavelli, the Platon commentaries by Averroes (smartest guy in the middle ages, almost seems like the only free thinker in a sea of ignorant zealotry), and assorted texts by Al Farrabi and Thomas Aquinus.
Plus a bunch of excerpts from texts of Vergil, Augustinus and various other authors i can't recall right now when i learned Latin in school.
Vergil in Latin was about the most demanding piece of text i ever had to fight my way through, but that might be because my Latin was horrible even back then (it's next to nonexistant now).
I've also read a bunch of medieval German works, Nibelungenlied, Tristan, Das Narrenschiff and a heap of shorter texts. Yes, in early middle/early modern German.
Had to learn that at uni.

>>1208534

if you kill yourself tonight, or even cut yourself a little, post it here. It's the least you could do.

>>1208567
i try to keep that stuff to the tinychat, as it's considered "off-topic".

>Ethics by Aristotle
>The Republic by Plato
>The Illiad and Odyssey by Homer
>The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
>The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Specifically, I read Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.

I'm a philosophy minor with a Mathematics major, OP. The books I listed above are, more or less, found in every philosophy class. They were found in mine, at least.

>>1208499

This person is right, by the way. The dichotomy between an intense literature enthusiast and a casual reader lies within the knowledge found within these assortment of titles. These books provide foundations for most philosophical notions today, and are a prerequisite to any serious literature/english major. Without these books, philosophy/literature wouldn't be what it is today.

Take Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, for example. Books 9 and 10 explicate what true friendship is, and elucidates the definition of virtuosity between two companions. Many notions, in regards to morality, are also contained within this book. Cicero's De Amicitia -- which should be added to this assortment -- also is reminiscent of Aristotelian philosophy; in fact, he was trained in Greek literature/philosophy. His work is the offspring of that knowledge, albeit a bit different. Cicero is also considered one of the most exquisite orators of all time; his latin literary prose was marvelous. Even by today's standard, it's still a jewel. Every english translation they've done so far contains aesthetic literary value.

I can talk for hours and hours on these books, man. Aquinas is also good, but I haven't read everything by him yet.

Fuck. I need to read that shit.

>>1208571
post on /adv/ about it

also, http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/

Ethics by Aristotle
The Republic by Plato
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Utopia by Thomas More
Inferno - Dante

reading odyssey now

The Republic by Plato
Ethics by Aristotle
The Illiad and Odyssey by Homer
The Aeneid by Virgil
Confessions and City of God by Saint Augustine
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
The Song of Roland

I have no interest in reading any of the ones that I haven't read. Well, maybe the Boethius.

Basically none and I want to keep it that way.

>>1208663
What's it like being an uneducated philistine?

>>1208666
I would rather read a book about the classics or take a class that can summarize the classics and their influence rather than read those boring ass shit stories. Same with Plato and Aristotle. Who wants to read Plato and Aristotle drone on about nonsense?

>>1208683
0/10

no one is that retarded

Read parts of Plato's Republic for a philosophy class--what he said was interesting, but would never ever work in theory.

Also read Canterbury Tales--most of it in high school AP English, the first couple parts in an English Lit class I'm taking now. I didn't like it then, and I still don't like it now...but middle english is kewl.

Aside from that? nada.

The Illiad and Odyssey
The Oedipus Cycle
Le Morte D'Arthur
I also have the Aeneid, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Canturbury Tales, and the Divine Comedy, but haven't gotten around to reading them. I appreciate ancient texts for the influence they had and the milestones they were, but I don't generally read them

Or we could get the sparknotes versions of all these texts. Then with the spare few months or years excused from reading, we could pursue other well known authors or - DISCOVER NEW AUTHORS SO AS TO NOT RECYCLE THESE SAME DRAWN OUT LITERARY WORKS OVER AND OVER.

Seriously, many of the ideas put out by these texts have been taken and overused, plugged into society. We then eat them up through culture without having known the original source. Then, once we read these works we gain little more than having found the original source. New thought is not advised.

Read a couple of them and parts of a few others in philosophy class. Only one of them I own is The Divine Comedy though.