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Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:26:19 2021 No.17331576 [Reply] [Original]

Now what, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:27:42 2021 No.17331586 >>17331576 You missed a spot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:30:38 2021 No.17331598 nothing. you bought them and you showed them off. that's it. go on to your next purchase. maybe make a stack thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:30:50 2021 No.17331600 >>17331576 Undergraduate moment

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:31:05 2021 No.17331602 When will people stop falling for the Edith Hamilton meme?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:31:21 2021 No.17331607 >>17331576 Homer, Hesiod, the Tragedians and other poets, Herodotus, Thucydides, and the pre-Socratics should be read (and carefully) before starting Plato

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:31:36 2021 No.17331608 >>17331602 What's wrong with her?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:32:02 2021 No.17331610 >>17331576 Read them

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:32:34 2021 No.17331615 now you can stack them up and reach that noose down to your neck desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:32:36 2021 No.17331616 Hairyclit'ris is nice. Get a bindup of presocratics/hellenistic phil - they're super cheap. Epicureanism is great too and stoicism is an interesting read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:34:54 2021 No.17331629 >>17331608 You're better off reading the writers she's summarizing for instead like Ovid

Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:36:47 2021 No.17331638

>>17331607
>and the pre-Socratics should be read (and carefully) before starting Plato
What's there to read? The two bigesst hitters, Heraclitus and Parmenides, only have fragments still. Feel like I largely understand the philosophy/cosmology of everyone prior to Plato just with the historical background and summaries.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:38:15 2021 No.17331648 >>17331629 It's fine though, a bunch of greek myths condensed into a small book with added extra some Norse myths. I don't see the problem.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:39:36 2021 No.17331655 >>17331629 I tried getting into Apollodorus and it was dry as shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:43:46 2021 No.17331676 >>17331576 Herodotus and Thucydides

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:49:00 2021 No.17331703 File: 238 KB, 1400x1111, pepe37.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17331576 I like your jacket op.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:52:38 2021 No.17331712 >>17331703 thanks, it's a flat head varsity if you want to find it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 22:55:25 2021 No.17331722 File: 48 KB, 693x959, apu29.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17331712

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 23:01:17 2021 No.17331762 >>17331638 You're fine just read pre socratics after, fragments are fine. Empedocles is a good look too.

Anonymous Tue Jan 19 23:09:34 2021 No.17331810

>>17331648
There's no problem, because Hamilton is a primer. Is she where you should stop your studies of the Greek myths? Absolutely not. But she is a fine place to start, so that when you actually do dive into the primary sources you'll have a rough lay of the land.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 00:21:24 2021 No.17332151 >>17331608 >her Jesus Christ I only just realised Edith is a woman’s name

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 00:42:06 2021 No.17332245 >>17331576 I remember when I saw the start with the greeks chart and bought all the books, enjoy reading OP

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 01:08:45 2021 No.17332391 File: 27 KB, 600x400, 1610914199823.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17331576 >He actually started with le Greeks

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 01:09:56 2021 No.17332397 >>17332391 I mean I did but I chose to. Have not touched philosophy much though

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 01:10:20 2021 No.17332398 >>17331576 You wasted money on the Aristotle and Plato books. A better buy would have been the basic works of Aristotle and the republic by Plato

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 01:48:00 2021 No.17332547 >>17331576 Why are your complete works of Aristotle so skinny? Mine are thick as fuck, more so than Plato's single book. Same blue ones by the way.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 01:49:03 2021 No.17332553 >>17332391 Get out pseud, the start with the Greeks is a real meme. Everyone should do it, it has immortal wisdom in which to always start your journey off from.

Anonymous Wed Jan 20 04:05:03 2021 No.17333098

>>17332553
>Everyone should do it
Sure, everyone should eventually get around to it - doesn't mean you have to explicitly start with them. I read multiple philosophers before even starting Plato. Berkeley, Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche etc. Not a single regret. Albeit, a good grasp on Plato's theory of forms is probably necessary for understanding the large majority of western philosophy, I'll give you that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 04:23:22 2021 No.17333178 >>17331576 Okay so now you read Hegel and then pick if you want to be a fascist or marxist.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 04:24:40 2021 No.17333185 File: 26 KB, 713x611, BE80A0D8-A822-470E-94B0-82424922CCBE.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17332391 >he fell for the meme

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 04:28:22 2021 No.17333197 >>17331655 >Ovid

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 04:33:31 2021 No.17333212 >>17331598 Literature in the age of capitalism.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 04:39:39 2021 No.17333241 >>17331608 The book is just a bunch of summaries of Greek myths with a few Norse ones thrown in. You may as well read wikipedia articles on those myths and save your money.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 05:08:15 2021 No.17333314 off to aristo volume 3 then

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 05:09:00 2021 No.17333316 >>17331602 I don't know. I don't understand why she's promoted so much.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 07:07:13 2021 No.17333705 >>17331576 Based Greek reader

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 07:07:26 2021 No.17333706 >>17331810 This person gets it. She’s just a concise summary of mythology which is a great way to into it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 07:14:10 2021 No.17333733 File: 335 KB, 1488x2507, iliad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17331576

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 11:35:35 2021 No.17335079 >>17332547 i tore the pages that i didnt like

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 11:49:34 2021 No.17335176 >>17335079 Unutterably chadesque

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 11:54:44 2021 No.17335205 >>17331602 >>17331608 >>17331629 >>17333241 it is literally a high school workbook and written as such. i set it down after 2 chapters. nothing to be gained from it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 11:58:13 2021 No.17335219 >>17331600 Don't forget the Landmark editions of Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 11:59:58 2021 No.17335234 >>17332553 you should never start with the greeks because they are too complicated.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 12:11:21 2021 No.17335307 >>17331576 Why ? Are you a student of classics ? If not, then you are most likely wasting your time if you try to read it all. You are better off reading extracts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 12:18:20 2021 No.17335370 >>17331576 HE FELL FOR IT

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 12:19:27 2021 No.17335378 >>17331602 It's decent if you have no knoweldge on Greek myth, but there are more interesting, (and more enjoyable), modern books on the topic, and I'm not talking about dense textbooks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 13:12:32 2021 No.17335893 >>17331586 And the spot was pyrrho, homer and the presocratics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 13:14:29 2021 No.17335920 >>17335307 no he's(the only female on this board is butters) not - everyone should read Plato and Aristotle.

Anonymous Wed Jan 20 15:59:14 2021 No.17337244

>>17335307
what do you mean by student? like someone in school? perhaps you need to take the zero drachma course and reread plato

Now if I had attended Prodicus's fifty-drachma course of lectures, after which, as he himself says, a man has a complete education on this subject, there would be nothing to hinder your learning the truth about the correctness of names at once; but I have heard only the one-drachma course, and so I do not know what the truth is about such matters.

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