Fellow /lit/izens, I'd like your help please. Is there

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>tfw no one cares about your question

Just study greek history. That one pomeroy book n the decent ancient greece guide mentions various poets, also that first poet thing. From thereon your knowledge builds itself automatically. If you want to dedicate your life towards the greeks and romans, then why try to follow an already set path?

>>9062402
Thanks for your help, but I'm not looking for their poetry alone.

I'd like to find a guide that had also the historians and their works, the philosophers, the dramatists, etc. Much like the Western Canon, as I mentioned before, but with this specific focus.

>>9061707
If you want to truly master all the brilliance of the Greeks, Romans, and greatest philosophers and minds of human history, there is actually only one book you have to read. Can you guess what that book is, /lit/?

>>9062967
The history book i mentioned names a lot of them. And besides. Just start with Hesiod and Homer, that should, if you want to do it thoroughly (which seems so, since you wis hto dedicate your life towads it) will take up enough time.

>>9063518
The Pomeroy book I think I know, but which is the "decent ancient greece guide" you mentioned earlier?

>>9061707
there isn't some huge ignored body of surviving works. I'd imagine Bloom's list hits most of it, if not, a google would probably get you there

>>9061707
It takes two years of heavy reading to read pretty much everything surviving from Antiquity. Four counting the Church fathers and Late Antiquity-bizarre era.

>>9061707
Learn Greek and Latin before you worry about any of that.

>>9061707

Just look at the Teubner catalog.

The Canon of Greeks and Romans, strictly defined, includes everything that was ever written by Greeks and Romans during a certain time period and much after. Teubner has most of it but still not all.

There are many excellent, usable literature surveys from the 19th century that talk about all the authors, of course of most of these authors only exist in quotations by grammarians and whatnot.

>>9065900
The catalog you mentioned looks very good as a big, complete list of works. It's not exactly what I'm looking for (I'd like something more like a cohesive guide), but it's a great source anyway. Thanks a lot for the recommendation.

>>9062975
The Bible!

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>>9069166
Then it would be 66 books, my plebeian friend. And zero, if you counted literary value.