Does /lit/ have any personal recommendations for reading the Greeks? Any good links or charts for myths/philosophy/plays?
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Aristophanes is pretty based, and easy to get into. Makes for light reading compared to the philosophies and epics that are the "must-reads"
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>>7385236
Saved from my thread last week. (1/2)
>>7385258
Enjoy, OP
(2/2)
>>7385243
This, but Aristophanes is the icing on the cake after you've read everything else, because of his consistent reference to and satire of the major figures and events of Athens.
"there is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx nature than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his deathbed there was found no "Bible," nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic--but a volume of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life--a Greek life he repudiated--without an Aristophanes?" -Nietzsche
Ida know, Opie.
Contributing.
>>7385236
>Any good links
Watch professor Elizabeth Vandiver's lectures on Classical Mythology
https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume1
>>7385449
Introduction
Classical Mythology
Professor Elizabeth Vandiver
https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume2
>>7385451
Lecture 2 What is Myth
Classical Mythology
Professor Elizabeth Vandiver
https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume3
>>7385456
Lecture 3 Why is Myth
Classical Mythology
Professor Elizabeth Vandiver
https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume4
>>7385449
>woman
Thanks, but no thanks.
>>7385258
Thank you
>>7385615
Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
Professor Michael Sugrue of Princeton University brings the Socratic quest for truth alive in these lectures, which discuss ideas that are as vital today as they were 25 centuries ago
Ideas that can change lives and reveal the world in new ways to the true student
>>7387431
...Professor Michael Sugrue's lecture on Phaedrus is lovely...
>>7385236
>>7385258
IMO Thucydides should be before the playwrights. I've read all of Aristophanes and the Tragedies, and there's really nothing in them that contains anything helpful in-order to, afterwards, read Thucydides. While reading Thucydides first, you'll understand a lot of the background in a bunch of the plays (mostly Euripides and Aristophanes)
