I began with the Greeks, but I understand them neither literally, figuratively, nor intellectually. Now what?
>>25615660>Begin again, Finnegan
>>25615660did you learn greek though? i mean it's kinds hard to read greek without knowing greek just saying.
>>25615737I must confess, I haven’t read them in the original Greek, being sadly unversed in the language; I have, however, had the pleasure of acquainting myself with them through their English translations.
just read good secondary lit so you have something to measure your understanding against, give yourself some rough ground
>>25615660What did you read yet?
>>25615991I read Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days, Euripides’ The Trojan Women, and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, well or at least I tried to.
>>25615660>Now what?>>>/tv/
>>25615660With which greeks did you begin?
>>25616063>>25616030oh sorry, should have read the whole thread first
>>25616030I absolutely HATE coming to this board every day and it’s the same dipshits each time who have read or barely managed to read more aptly, three works of Greek literature and now feel completely lost with what else they need to read.
>>25616030Hesiod is fine but the rest of those are like the Humanities 102 texts that you read after Humanities 101. Especially the Aristotle if you haven't gotten your feet wet with Plato first. It's fine to have read them first but if you skip ahead sometimes understanding suffers, so if you're hoping mainly for understanding it's maybe less efficient or something. The Greeks are very weird in many ways. They're 100% the root of the West, but imagine you have only ever seen the tops of a carrot, the green parts, and one day someone brings you a carrot and says do you know what this is and you say it's some kind of root but I'm not familiar with it and they say this is the root of a carrot and you say what the fuck it's orange? And then you realize you've actually seen the top of the orange root poking out of the dirt your whole life, it just never registered, because to you a carrot was green and leafy. Anyway this is the gayest, most poorly conceived post I've ever written I hope you're happy.
>>25616078feetwetwith platoholy pseud
>>25616030You should do the Iliad and Odyssey pair first and then try Hesiod again, the Gods will appear as characters now. Just make a daily target of lines and read through, don't think of getting into some deep zone or to find it 'interesting' before you read. That comes after when you discuss. The plays should also wait for Homer.For philosophy as >>25616078 said, Plato is a better starting point. Do Apology and Crito, then, if you like his dialectic form, read this other works and make your way to the Republic. But as >>25616103 points out (in his own retarded manner), one can start with Aristotle as well. Just read slow for either, mark the portions that are confusing for now, come back after a section is done to clarify them. 'Ethics' is not that hard, it is his style you are not used to. But Plato easier to get into imo. Try him.Lastly, if you would like to feel how far we are from the Greeks, try Herodotus, all the little anectodes and cultural descriptions are really fun and easier to read. It read likes a travelogue through the ancient world.
but did you try fucking the well-oiled thighs of a noble young companion?
>>25615660Move on tot he Roman’s anyway.
>>25616030>no homer>no aristophanes>no lyric poetrycome on my nigga
>>25617248>HerodotusLiterally the bridge between the poets and the historians
>>25615668beat me to it kek
>>25616030most people start with homer or plato. maybe you were on the right track with the aristotle, though.
>>25618378True, I forgot to add that Herodotus writes in the flavor of Homer. Homer before him would be great.
>>25617525Speak like a human
