/lit/ - Literature

>>16272636
Specifically what filtered you?
Don't say Iliad book II.

>Not Beginning with the Bronze Age.

>>16272664
Gorgias

>>16272636
don't worry anon
start with the asians

>>16272636
Listen to History of Philosophy without any Gaps until Aristotle then read Plato

>>16272677
Is there anything profound to learn from this chart? Is it not just a collection of dates and traditions?

>>16272923
Yes, dates and traditions hold the stories of the livez of people, just like you and me :)

>>16272636
>filtered by the greeks

>>16272636
I just finished Hamilton's Mythology and while I immensely love several passages of the book got damn was it a slog
I don't even know what to do now besides listen to HoPWAG podcasts; maybe I'll try some Jung since he seems cool

>>16272680
You didn't get filtered off gorgias

>>16272636
just take a nap and read it later. It's a dialogue about as simple as you can get. He's not even writing his own views jusg the socratic process

>>16274347
nigga that's not even the Greeks
that's just someone writing about the Greeks millennia after the fact

>>16272636
Restart with the Greeks

>>16272680
How far did you actually read? It can seem like nonsense as they discuss rhetoric, but once they actually start addressing things like morality and justice, it becomes pretty easy to follow.

Try taking notes and putting the central points into your own words.

>>16274711
lol leave the brainlet alone

>>16272636
Crayon books

>>16274734
I read 86 pages

>>16274844
oh venerable horse riding tripfag why do thee mock, why do thee not contribute of valuable discussion instead of steering this thread into ye bog

>>16272680
That's a lie, it's easy just keep reading as he does make an effort to recap and explain his ideas very well especially in Gorgias, so get past the 30 page point and you'll really realise why Plato is a genius and what he is trying to do in the dialogue. There is one line that Socrates says in the dialogue to explain it, but I wont spoil as it's so exciting to read.

Also the conclusion of Gorgias is not left as it is and is taken up in Philebus.

>>16276266
Oh, well for that one line which explains Plato's intention with the whole dialogue, it is what is the right way for how a man is to live; or something like that. What did you not understand from this?

What translations should I read for Plato's dialogues?

>>16272636
Don't start
>>16272879
End with the Asians. After Zhuangzi, everything is pointless

>>16272636
anime

>have I read the Greeks?
>yeah bro I had to read two dialogues from Plato for a social science class I’m basically a classicist