/lit/ - Literature

>>12808988
Bible, followed by Shakespeare. The rest is a footnote.

>>12808992
>Bible
Already read that
>Shakespeare
So Virgil, Ovid, etc are meaningless?

>>12808988
Aeneid, duh

>>12809006
I heard it was a bad fan fic over on /tv/

ovids piece on sex with a roman is juicy

>>12808988

The Aeneid.

The Icelandic Sagas. Paradise Lost, the Divine Comedy, Beowulf, Cu Chulainn.

Don't let anyone con you into reading Paterson, Williams was a mediocre poet.

>>12808988

Aeneid, if you want the fan fiction sequel.

Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, if you want more Greek epic.

Xenophon's Anabasis, if you want something like both the Iliad and the Odyssey, but want to read prose for a change.

>>12808988
Aischylos, Yeats (Leda and the Swan), Virgil, Ovid, Bible, Dante, The Eddas, Beowolf, Shakespeare, Milton, The Icelandic Sagas, Goethe, Blake.

>>12809043
Arh! Forgot Arthurian /lit/!

>>12809047
>Arh! Forgot Arthurian /lit/!
There a specific one you recommend to read first? L' Morte De Arthur the one to go with or something else?

>>12809079
I myself hasn't read anything but L'Morte De Arthur and Wagner's Percival.
L'Morte De Arthur kinda feels like a list of spoilers / a general overview. Wagner's Percival was quite noice.

>>12809122
>L'Morte De Arthur kinda feels like a list of spoilers / a general overview
I was tryin to decide whether to read this or the once and future king. Id seen bashing of L'Morte De Arthur for being too "rough" but didn't know if it was better or worse than TH Whites work

>>12808988
my personal Greeks reading list

>>12809133
Arh, shit I've always for some reason thought that "King Arthur and his Knights" was the English translation of Le Morte d'Arthur... So it wasn't L'Morte De Arthur I've been talking about...

>>12809133

Le Morte d'Arthur might feel "rough" if you are used to modern novels. It follows older narrative conventions which could come across as similar to a history book, there's going to be a lot of telling and very little in the way of dialogue from what I remember. But really it's a question of whether you want to read a medieval work or a modern retelling.

As to it feeling overviewy as >>12809122
says, that's why it is often recommended to start with. It's pretty much the only medieval work that actually covers the entirety of the mythos. Almost everything else in the Arthurian mythos is just individual episodes or the life story of a single knight.

>>12809196
>It's pretty much the only medieval work that actually covers the entirety of the mythos. Almost everything else in the Arthurian mythos is just individual episodes or the life story of a single knight.
Guess that's the one to read first then thanks. I was gonna get the death of king Arthur the other day when I saw it at a book store but didn't know if it was a good one to start with so I held off

>>12808988

Fuck, forgot Chaucer.

Him too anon

Euripides - Helen

Its a delightfully dramatic tragi-comedy

>>12808988
Aeschylus and Sophocles to find out what happened to the characters after the Iliad and Odyssey.

Theocritus.

>>12808988

>>12808988
Hesiod, Herodotus, complete greek tragedies, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Epictetus, Plato, Aristotle