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15476926 No.15476926 [Reply] [Original]

>start with the greeks
>start with the bronze age
>start with the apes
>start with the unicelular
Do I really need to go all through 2 or 3 books to understand the Iliad?
Do you guys use side-books while reading the main book? Or read previous books before reading a book?
I feel very attempt to read the Iliad but everytime there's a bunch of people saying that I need to read other like 5 non-lit books to REALLY understand it bc I need to FULLY understand every aspect of greek society, life, way of thinking, etc. But do I tho? Reading about 5 books to become an expert in the greeks before reading something greek is a huge turn off to me.

What's your approach to this? I want to have a decent knowledge to not say bullshit about the books but I don't really want to become the next expert in the subject while I still want to read plenty of other modern books in my young age.

>> No.15476946

>>15476926
y-you do know you don't have to autistically follow charts, right? Just read whatever you want lmfao

>> No.15476965

>>15476946
The chart was only because I had to put a image, I do not follow charts.

>> No.15476970

no its FUCKING retarded. these lists are made by navel gazers who do not read themselves. this is confirmed by how BULLSHIT all the science lists are.

>> No.15477511

Use your head brainlet

Do you need to read Aristophanes to "understand" Kant? Probably not

Do you need to read the Iliad to understand the Aeneid or the bible to understand the scholasticism? Yes

These threads are so fucking dumb.

>> No.15479113

Fuck that shit mate

>> No.15479154

>>15476926
I am currently Beginning with the Sumerians (studying Kramer's book right now) while learning Attic&Homeric Greek to read Homer. (also learning Latin) Besides Mesopotamia I intend to go through Egypt and the Hittites before Homer. I have learned the 500+ most common verbs in Homer and will soon do the same for nouns and etc., through Owen and Goodspeed's Homeric vocabularies.
Am I doing this right?
Recommend me books and sources for ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilization, philosophy and literature.

>> No.15479159

>>15479154
(also I peeked at Caplice's Akkadian textbook but I'm not going to spend much time with it, maybe just to get an idea)

>> No.15479195

how do you expect to understand a work from a culture so detached from the modern world without studying all available sources about that culture?
well you dont. you can just read the illiad. everyone learned about greek mythology in 4th grade.

>> No.15479706

All you really need is to have a basic knowledge of Greek mythology, and specifically just some of the gods. I started with the Iliad and odyssey before continuing to Greek playwrights etc. and i had no trouble with comprehension at any point. The Homeric epics are actually quite straightforward.

>> No.15479829

>>15476926
Faulkners traslation of the Book of the Dead, ISHYGDDT

>> No.15480364

>>15476926
unironically read greeks

>> No.15480374

>>15476926
i was thinking like you but actually iliad is pretty easy to understand

>> No.15480376

>>15479154
That sounds very unnecessary, most classicists only go back as far as Homer and Hesiod. OP's chart is obviously for people interested in the bronze age specifically.

>> No.15480590

>>15477511
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