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Anonymous Tue May 23 05:40:19 2023 No.22065392 [Reply] [Original]

>start with the greek
okay but what book?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 05:43:49 2023 No.22065400 >>22065392 The Apology

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 05:45:21 2023 No.22065401 Iliad obviously you fucking dumbass

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 05:53:04 2023 No.22065425 >>22065392 Oedipus the King Agamemnon

Anonymous Tue May 23 06:01:08 2023 No.22065447

>>22065401
do what this anon said. or read Works and Days, since that is also a really really old text (and is also much shorter than the Iliad, which definitely helps if you are retarded). I'd say that reading either of those books would give you a sense for the Greek life-view

Anonymous Tue May 23 06:08:54 2023 No.22065466
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This chart is a good, if over-extensive guide.

Edith Hamilton's Mythology is a really, really good starter. Then read Strauss' book followed with the Iliad/Odyssey (I prefer Fitzgerald's translation, Fagles is lacking the intensity of the original.

Then I would actually read Xenophon's Memorabilia (Bonnette translation) for your introduction to Socrates before reading Plato. Extremely interesting and enjoyable read

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 06:13:46 2023 No.22065477 Genuinely read every single surviving text in chronological order up until Herodotus.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 06:28:41 2023 No.22065508 >>22065466 You havent even read the original you pseud stop pretending

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 06:30:27 2023 No.22065515 >>22065508 filtered

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 07:05:10 2023 No.22065606 >>22065392 read the fucking sticky

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 14:59:18 2023 No.22066626 >>22065392 Read the sticky you fucking moron

Anonymous Tue May 23 15:18:16 2023 No.22066682

>>22065466
>Edith Hamilton's Mythology is a really, really good starter. Then read Strauss' book
These are for homos. Especially the first, which is written by someone incapable of understanding the core meanings of most of the tales.

Just read the texts themselves and you'll get it if you're not stupid.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 15:26:10 2023 No.22066697 >>22065466 )

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 15:30:52 2023 No.22066710 charmides

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 15:37:39 2023 No.22066730 >>22065392 Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 15:38:13 2023 No.22066733 >>22065392 Homeric hymns, Hesiod, Homer, Heraclitus, Herodotus. Branch out from there.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 23 15:40:39 2023 No.22066736 >>22066682 The OP literally knows so little about Greek myth or history as to ask a Nepalese clay shooting board on what to read first. A classic like Hamilton's Mythology is standard introduction to the subject in High School classes.

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