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The Ancient Greeks

Homer (ca.800BC)
Iliad; Odyssey.
Hesiod (ca.700BC)
Works and Days; Theogony.
Archilochos
Sappho (ca.600BC)
Alkman
Pindar.
Odes.
Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
Oresteia; Seven Against Thebes; Prometheus Bound; Persians; Suppliant Women.
Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 BC)
Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Electra; Ajax; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes.
Euripides (480 or 484-406 BC)
Cyclops; Heracles; Alcestis; Hecuba; Bacchae; Orestes; Andromache; Medea; Ion; Hippolytus; Helen; Iphigenia at Aulis.
Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC - 385 BC)
The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata; The Knights; The Wasps; The Assemblywomen.
Herodotus, 485–420BCE
The Histories.
Thucydides, ca.460 BCE
The Peloponnesian Wars.
The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)
Plato, c.427-c.347 BCE
Dialogues.
Aristotle, 384–322 BCE
Poetics; Ethics.

Hellenistic Greeks

Menander, ca. 342–291 BC
The Girl from Samos.
Longinus.
On the Sublime.
Callimachus.
Hymns and Epigrams.
Theocritus.
Idylls.
Plutarch, 46–120
Lives; Moralia.
Aesop (620 - 560 BC)
Fables.
Lucian.
Satires.

>>8910932
Lucian is so fun (assuming you mean of Samosata and i'm not a big dummy)

>>8910898
It didn't start with the Greeks, so why start with the Greeks.

>start with the Mesopotamians

>>8910853
how do you get the file?

>>8910896
It's a torrent. You use a torrent client like Vuze or uTorrent. It's also illegal, so security measures are a good idea. Head over to /t/ if you're interested, otherwise, I can upload the textbook to MEGA if you'd like

>>8910916
Thanks, I've been meaning to learn latin.

Point Doom by Dan Fante

Typee - Herman Melville

Peace and War by Leo Tolstoy
Enjoy :)

>good stack desu

>>8910755
Who are you quoting?

should I read Middlemarch or the Border Trilogy?
I'm on a western kick right now, but want to read something kind of long and challenging, and I already know what I'm in for with McCarthys prose

Go read Jason

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>>8910689
For you, Martin

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Have fun Chris

>>8910573
Thinking fast and slow daniel kahneman.

>>8910581
Not sure if bait or serious

>>8910573
My diary desu

90's thing probably

>>8910540
>ok Dave I know there's a sofa over there but I want you to just squat down in the middle of the room, yeah that's it, real sincere

>>8910540
He didn't hate fags, he's simply describing people who are doing faggy things, where "faggy" is a catch-all term for things people do or wear to look cool, but of course end up not looking cool.

And of course Davey hated people who did things or wore things to look cool, too, especially people who feigned disinterest, but there's another word for that.

>>8910528
>find out Apollo was apparently a hugely promiscuous bi-sexual
>tfw try to reconcile that with the fact that sexually conservative America decided to name it's moon program after him

>>8910528
furries are the strongest race

Just as weird as people have always been

Wait till you read some Apuleius

>>8910522
start with the greeks

>>8910522
Why do you want to read it?

>>8910522
Know that you'll fail many, many times.

This is a book deep inside the mind of a man who spent his life writing and creating stories, tales, sitting in pubs drinking and immersing himself in the culture of Ireland.

Us as petty Americans (and other countries) can never truly know this experience, and people who aren't Joyce will never understand everything he meant to say. That's kind of the brilliance of it- Joyce was a profoundly Romantic author in his later works. He didn't write to entertain and delight, but to express himself as thoroughly and honestly as he could. Ulysses, along with Finnegans Wake, is a novel that isn't mean to be "understood" (if that's pretentious enough). It's meant to be enjoyed, and it's supposed to make you feel what Joyce felt. There are, of course, some parts that make perfect sense. But Joyce plays with everything.

If you're going to read this novel, bring a copy of the Odyssey with you. Joyce pretty much paraphrased the Odyssey (almost word for word) in this book. It's a modernized adaptation of the Odyssey about a man's travels in Ireland (specifically Dublin).

Don't expect to understand everything. Not even the academics do. My english professor has read the novel hundreds of times and says he finds something new every time. Maybe there's a little piece of it that Joyce didn't understand, too.

Such is Ireland.

Ten hours, like every book I read.

a week

About 5 months. I took too long. Would have enjoyed it more if I went faster. Read it at a nice clip and then read the beginning again when you're done.

16:05

This is why leftists want to bury him.

>>>/soc/
/lit/ is a board for literature, not random youtubers

Come on, this is the third thread now. Stop posting this.

just fucking read it you insufferable faggot

Read the sentences in chronological order

>>8910224
Becoming confused by it is part of the pleasure. It's genuinely what Pynchon intended. Don't feel guilty about it.

I'm sure some people like him. Not as interesting as Munch. Not as crazy as we want him to be.

I read Röda rummet and Drömspiel, good stuff

>>8910060
His correspondence with Nietzsche is hilarious.

I'll bump this once - and give it one chance - by adding that I really thought about posting this for many months, knowing that /lit/ will tear it to pieces. Or that it will simply quickly pass into obscurity without any replies. Either outcome didn't feel that appealing, thus the hesitation. Anyway, I'd like some recommendations on lesser known authors or solid arguments why i'm wrong. This has been really bothering me for a long time now.

>>8909871
Read Nietzsche to transcend nihilism

>>8909871
>dude genes lol

If i murdered someone would that just be generic? What if i can't get an erection for sex? Did my genes tell me not top pass them on?

What a biology meme. Thinking everything is predetermined by dna author thinking about psychology and culture or anything besides
>muh all knowing science

>>8909726
The only reason I haven't killed myself is because I'm a coward.

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>tfw no literary gf

Tonight I'm gonna just stay home and read.