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Ok so i havent read a book all my life and want to become smart, friend suggested me to start with the greeks, mainly illiad and odyssey, what next?

>> No.18159694

>>18159680
Start with Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" to give yourself a grounding in their beliefs. Then find a basic survey of Ancient Greek history, covering the Minoans up through Alexander (even wikipedia will do; you just want to have a general sense of the history).

Then Homer, as recommended. Then Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

Then move into Plato and Aristotle. From there you have many options of where to go next.

>> No.18159715

>>18159694
Horrible advice. Read homer, then read the standard highschool curriculum. You don't have the capacity to understand philosophy.

>> No.18159744

>>18159715
Reading Homer without a basic knowledge of the Greek myths (i.e. what is covered by Hamilton) is going to be a waste. OP could skip the history and philosophy, but if he's going in blind, not knowing which characters in Homer are divine or not is going to seriously fuck up his understanding.

>> No.18159758

>>18159680
unironically read the bible first
then the quran

>> No.18160813

>>18159680
no way is this real

>> No.18161090

Start with the complete works of Eurypides.

>> No.18161120

>>18159715
The low quality of the standard high school curriculum is probably why he hasn't read a book.