/lit/ - Literature

>>15056722
>Complete works of Plato
>Complete works of Aristotle
No.

>>15056727
Why not?

>>15056722
Took me two years to do all the yellow and blue + Aeschylus, Euripides and Epicurus and Sappho's fragments.
I was reading other stuff in that time as well though.

>>15056753
Well, I'm basically a NEET and have all the time in the world. Can I achieve that feat in less than a month if I focus all my efforts and time on it?

>>15056722
No. People can, but not (you)

>>15056836
Why?

>>15056740
Because that’s like 4000 pages.

>>15056863
Plus 400 pages for Edith Hamilton, like 1000 pages for Iliad+Odyssey, 700 pages for Herodotus.

>>15056832
You wouldn't really want to, the Greeks are better savoured and mulled over and compared to your daily experiences, it'd be like watching three films a day for a month, you'd lose all impact.

>>15056852
You're here looking for validation instead of just reading

>>15056880
Wrong! If I wanted attention I'd go on social media, not an anonymous forum

>>15056895
Why don't you just start reading then? Why do you care how long you might take to read those books?

if you're a NEET then why does it matter? you can probably clear through them in a month or so if you go huge cock mode

>>15056832
read Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato's Republic, and a few plays in between, and see how you're getting on for time

>>15056895
you know fully well what you are doing, and the fact you have to ask the question in the OP shows how far you are from getting to where you think you belong.

in a single week ahhahahahahahahahahahha

hahahahahahah

>>15056832
I think a month is much more realistic than a week. You're gonna burn out though for sure or at least sacrifice the time these texts deserve at the expense of fully appreciating them.

>>15056722
Highjacking this thread to ask can I skip the Iliad and the Odyssey and go straight to Histories? Edith Hamilton’s Mythology summarises them anyway and I’m primarily interested in the philosophical texts, just want to do some background contextual reading before jumping into the presocratics.

>>15056895
>not an anonymous forum
Ok tripfag

>>15057490
The Iliad is harder to read, but the Odyssey is much more fulfilling if you had read it after. I think knowing the outcome of a character like say, Agamemnon, may not mean anything without knowing how he handled himself in the Iliad.

Complex books are better read in long spans of time, if you were trying to read funny fiction books without taking notes then it would be easy to read 13 in a week, but not the fucking greeks

>>15056722
Read two of those every year

>>15057549
So you’re saying I can read them later? I don’t have to read them before I get into Socrates, Plato, Aristotle etc?