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/lit/ is starting with the greeks just a meme or is it recommended to actually read all these in order to understand more contemporary literature?

>> No.6500177

>>6500167
IIRC It's really more for understanding philosophy but it will help you understand literature.

>> No.6500189

>>6500167
The order is off. You should have read the dramatists before you start on Aristophanes as he frequently references them.

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6500192

>>6500177
then I will go start with the greeks

>> No.6500267

>>6500167
>Herodotus was a gullible man

This chart was clearly made by someone who has never read Herodotus.

>> No.6500294

Best list coming through

History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society and Culture
The Bibliotheca by Apollodorus
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Theogony by Hesiod
Worsk and Days by Hesiod
Homeric Hymns
The Greek Poets (Sappho, Pindar, and Xenophanes are my favorite poets)
The Histories by Herodotus
Oresteia by Aeschylus
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The Frogs by Aristophanes
Medea by Euripedes
Early Greek Philosophy
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus
The Sophists
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
The Republic by Plato
Symposium by Plato
Meno by Plato
The Anabasis by Xenophon
Categories by Aristotle
Physics by Aristotle
On Generation by Aristotle
Corruption by Aristotle
On the Soul by Aristotle
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
Elements by Euclid
The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian
Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius
Parallel Lives by Plutarch

>> No.6500366

>>6500294
in that order?

>> No.6500375

>>6500366
Yea

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6500409

I started with the greeks this month, now half way through Iliad

what i've learned:

> women, or honor related to possessing women, is the source of all conflict
> the gods who determine the outcome of said conflicts have the wisdom and maturity of human teen girls
> in battle you will either get a small baby cut or be grotesquely disemboweled

>> No.6500416

>>6500409
When you finish it, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD0FEcK9smE

>> No.6500417

hesiod fucking sucks and i hate him. skip that shit and just reread the iliad.

>> No.6500423

>>6500417
I have to admit that Hesiod is awful compared to the rest, but still good to read if you want to study the Greeks. His two poems combined are only like 100 pages.

>> No.6500879

>>6500417
What's the problem with Hesiod? He's so conversational