>want to start with the greeks and read the bible just to say i have but dont actually want to suffer through the slog and would rather just read comfy post-modern literature What do?

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Anonymous Mon Aug 20 07:27:06 2018 No.11652375 [Reply] [Original]

>want to start with the greeks and read the bible just to say i have but dont actually want to suffer through the slog and would rather just read comfy post-modern literature

What do?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 20 07:29:51 2018 No.11652382 Stop being such a fucking bitch and start with the Greeks.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 20 12:28:17 2018 No.11653342 >>11652375 Just read contemporary stuff if you want. Philosophy ideally though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 20 12:37:45 2018 No.11653392 >>11652375 that's how it is lad, you gotta earn that pseud cred

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 20 12:41:05 2018 No.11653407 Why not do both at the same? You could do this to keep a Greeks schedule: >>11653286

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 20 12:44:02 2018 No.11653421 File: 18 KB, 366x380, 1334329164853.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11652375 >he thinks the Greeks are a slog to read never gonna make it

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>>11652375
Read selected parts of the Bible. Do Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Genesis, Job, the Psalms, and Revelation. Those are the fun parts.

Grab a copy of Pre-Socratic fragments and read a few of them esp. Heraclitus and Parmenides.

Read pic related.

Find a copy a Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Most Eminent Philosophers, and read whatever interests you; if nothing does, just flip through it randomly.

>>11653342
There's nothing wrong with this either. Just find some solid stuff -- naturally, it'll reference and interweave the Greeks and other forebearers, and it'll give you a taste for them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 20 12:47:02 2018 No.11653439 You know there are editions of books that have annotations. Shit, someone like Rabelais refers to the sources himself.

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