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What should i read before pic related?
I've read some Plato but i don't think that will help me with Homer.

>> No.18197169

>>18197014
Not a book but the 10 first episodes of the Trojan War Podcast are about the events that led up to what Homer covers in the Iliad.

I used to listen to an episode every time I went out for a run or walk, and since the episodes are about 1-1,5 h long I found them to be appropriate.

Really glad that I listened to it because I found it to help me get several references when I took on the Iliad.

>> No.18197207

>>18197169
Thanks, friend.

>> No.18197222

>>18197014
Why are these threads still here? Isn't books like these one of the first classics you read, since it's ya know, one of the foundations of western civilization? I'd have thought that people who have been on /lit/ for this long should have all this basic stuff already read, unless you're a newfag of course.

>> No.18197226

>>18197014
you literally don't need to read anything. you should already know some greek mythology and all the gods from secondary school. that's enough.

>> No.18197264

OP is without a doubt an american. Every 7th grader in my country reads the Iliad.

>> No.18197283

>>18197264
my 7th grade teacher had us read 100 pages in the very middle of the Iliad. no one knew what was going on. thanks teach

>> No.18197722

>>18197264
I don't care about the Iliad.

>> No.18198600

>>18197014
How is this essential reading?

>> No.18198794
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>>18197014
The World of Odysseus

>> No.18198807

>>18198794
Approved!

If my approval dissuades you from reading it, you’re a pseud. It’s a great book.

>> No.18198827

Essential Literature in my opinion (Anglo Bias):
Iliad & odyssey (just read them cold open, you'll get used to it, maybe watch a youtube video to get the whose who on greek gods)
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
The New Testament
Augustine's Confessions
Dante's Divine Comedy
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Shakespeare complete plays
Moliere's plays
Wordsworth's Lyrics
Emma by Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
In Search of Lost Time by Proust.

>> No.18198830
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A Companion to The Iliad by Malcolm Willcock

>> No.18198847

>>18197283
he knew you couldn't appreciate it yet so he tried to engender an interest by letting you read in media res

>> No.18198864

>>18197014
Just read it retard. You dont need to know anything.

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>>18197014
Start by not reading Fagles.

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The Trojan War - Barry Strauss