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Anonymous Thu May 19 09:57:48 2016 No.8058486 [Reply] [Original]

How does one unironically start with the greeks?
Homer>Herodotus>Thucydides>Plato>Sophocles?

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>>	Anonymous Thu May 19 09:59:14 2016 No.8058489 >>8058486 you can't unironically start with the greeks. it must be done ironically.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 19 10:04:40 2016 No.8058496 >>8058486 Sophocles comes before Plato. Also, Hesiod should be after Homer It doesn't have to be any exact order. It's not like it's going to intellectually ruin you

>>	Anonymous Thu May 19 10:08:28 2016 No.8058509 Homer Hesiod Herodotus Pindar Thucydides Xenophon Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides The Presocratics and the Sophists Aristophanes Plato Aristotle Epicurus

>>	Anonymous Thu May 19 10:34:07 2016 No.8058552 >>8058509 Where does Sappho fit into this succession? I know there's not much left, but I've heard what we do have is beautiful any very much worth it.

Anonymous Thu May 19 10:39:56 2016 No.8058559

The Greeks were smart for their time, but they're pretty useless today, and the only reason people still read them is that humanities departments are nostalgiafags who would argue Super Mario 64 is STILL the best game of all time, STILL the best game to play today. Really? Really? You would rather play SM64 than Uncharted 4? You would? Fine, we'll lock you in a room with N64 games for a year and see how much fun you have. They're blurry, for crying out loud, not to mention the low poly count. Really?

Anonymous Thu May 19 10:50:48 2016 No.8058574

Well I'd say read Hesiod and Homer, then go on to the Preoscratics, the Sophists, Plato and Aristotle. Also use a philosophy manual to geet your bearings and understand why someone like Parmenides or Gorgias is important. Don't know much about play writers or poets, so I'll bow to the above recs.

But in the end, >>8058496 is right

>>8058559
Cool bait, I like it

>>	Anonymous Thu May 19 11:13:14 2016 No.8058615 >>8058486 If I were you, I'd read The Epic of Gilgamesh before I even touch the greeks.

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