Homer

>>8302546
>What order should I read them in
One at a time, lad. One at a time.

You don't need anything else, just read the Iliad first and then the Odyssey.

>>8302546
>>8302552
Don't listen to this cunt. Read them both simultaneously, one line from the Iliad, one from the Odyssey, all the while noticing the subtle stylistic differences that have provided clues to scholars pointing towards one of the poems having been authored by a woman (which?).

Read both

then read essays from The Cambridge Companion to Homer

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OP here, I am six books into the Iliad and it is sublime. I read a lot of good poetry but I am really enjoying this. It is now a life goal to read Homer in the original language, one assumes it would be akin to a spiritual experience.

>>8305794
Which translation is that?

>>8305817
This admirable gentleman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
The book cost me 99 pence (UK), which is ridiculously cheap, and Pope's translation is beautiful. Read the preface he wrote to the Iliad, which is in the book I have, I was stunned at it; he was a very intelligent man.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/essays/detail/69380

>>8305794

It really is incredible, I hope you enjoy the rest of the book at least as much.