/lit/ - Literature

>>16571397
One of the ones you've never heard of like "On Horsemanship."

>>16571397
Probably one of the many works which was lost. Among extant, intact works, I know Seven Against Thebes is generally considered one of the weakest tragedies.

>>16571422
> I know Seven Against Thebes is generally considered one of the weakest tragedies.
Christ, how are modern people getting filtered so hard? It's a amazing play

>>16571397

Probably one of the spurious works which was nevertheless in fact written by ancient Greek hands. You could also say: any of the ones that didn't survive, by (a certain) definition.

>>16571407
That's a masterpiece.

I didn't care for The Persians
What am I missing? Someone help me out I didn't go to school for shit shit

>>16571397
Aristotle "On the Heavens"

>>16571397
the enneads if you consider plotinus even a greek. origen surely isn't for instance. otherwise, the sophists' discourses. in poetry, it's surely esiod.

>>16571422
The Persians and Prometheus Bound are both significantly weaker than Seven Against Thebes

>>16571407
Xenophon's on Horsemanship, along with On Hunting, are fantastic you fucking ape.
>>16572102
Hesiod's Works and Days is great. The theogony is a bit stale though

>>16571397
Depends on what the criteria. The Library by Apollodorus is considered weak because it lacks any sort of artistry. It's just a plain retelling of every major myth from creation to the end of the Heroic Age.

I found a copy of an old play called The Dyskolos, by Menander.. I barely remember hearing the man’s name and never heard of this play.
Anyone here read it?

>>16571407
On Horsemanship is interestingly one of the oldest manuals still being used in its intended field (dressage). Aristotle's Poetics is the other one iirc.

>>16572689
hardly Greek though it's already 2ce

>>16571397
works and days

>>16573662
this

The Republic

>>16573662
Filtered stemfags

>>16575032
If anything, stemfags would appreciate it for being a farming textbook despite not having any literary merit.

>>16575060
>>16574341
>>16573662
so incredibly filtered holy fuck
suicide is the best option for you cats
also most of the plays arent that great, still prefer goethe and shakespeare

I haven't read it in English, let alone Greek, but I've heard that the Dionysica is a mastery of form and technique, leading to an incredibly stale and formulaic Epic.

>>16575202
>also most of the plays arent that great
>tells others they were filtered

>>16571397
Cynegeticus. Easily.

Thucycides is obviously important for what it is, but its honestly boring as fuck compared to most other Greek works

>>16575639
Have a yikes

>>16575577
i mean i admit i read them in translation, but i didnt feel captivated to the same extent as with shakespeare
and i forget which one, because i dont care much for them, but one made fun of socrates, so that one is inevitably inherently cringe

>>16576674
you can stop repeating that you read shakespeare retard you're still a hopelessly filtered pleb if you can't appreciate aeschylus

>>16576779
bro im speaking on your level by bringing up shakespeare, hes the only one who is seriously compared with the great greek poets
i only read some of euripides and the other guy, i read some of aeschylus a while back, but i was too young then and i didnt have the context to enjoy it, so i might have been good
but at this point im just gonna wait a year or two, because by then my greek will be good enough to read it without a translation, and im in no rush really, they are very influential in the works im currently reading so im not missing out on much

>>16571397
The one that survives in fragments! <dropsmic>

>>16576813
cope in silence faggot i dont care about your life story

>>16576850
i literally cannot conceive of why anyone would care so much about fucking greek playrights, can you give me a single reason they have any significance?
no you fucking cant
i dont know if you couldnt tell but i wasnt trying to be an asshole but youre a fucking loser kys
and its embarrasing that you care so much about this, like if it was plato and i was some antiplatonic scum, that makes sense, or if it was tolstoy or dante or some well regarded personage, its wouldnt be so weird, but its some obscure lame classic that you have a bizarre fetish over ig

>>16576879
tldr cringe brainlet

>>16571397
Everything Sophocles wrote

>>16575955
Ooof

One of aristotle's books on how to be autistic

>>16576879
A lot of old noblemen in the days before tv was invented would read plays for entertainment. Many of those plays were Greek and they would then make references to those plays sometimes in their writings. If you haven't read the plays you won't understand the references. Also a lot of Greek plays are interesting so fuck you.