What do I do after I'm done with the greeks?

>>9090616
Move on to the Hebrews and Christians

>>9090616
You continue with the Romans.

>>9090616
Go back and read them over again and keep repeating that.
You start with the Greeks, and you end with the Greeks.

The Greeks are the logical conclusion to Literature. Nothing else is gained from reading anything else.

>>9090630
>>9090682
and then you continue with 180 existing countries

>>9090616
Descartes, Hume, Kant

Nothing, you've completed literature.
Move on to another medium

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Unironic answer: anywhere you want. Greeks paved way to the foundation of philosophy, theology, and mythology. Now that you have the bedrock down, you can confidently choose and enjoy any literary period.

>>9090735
Wrong. Only Western and some far Eastern countries are worth your time.

>>9090616
Star Wars

>>9090849
Which ones?

>>9090616
You can console yourself by reading Φώτιος

>>9090616
How can one be "done" with the Greeks? I'm reading The Odyssey right now, I'm going to go back and read a good translation of Gilgamesh before coming back to the Iliad, then Oedipus Rex and The Republic, but what other works should I read before I can be considered "done" with the Greeks and start moving on to the romans and the KJV?

>>9090616
There is no end and no beginning.

Only the greeks are real.
The greeks is all there is.

>>9090750
Descartes. Hume, Nietzsche*

>>9090616
read them again

>>9090630
>>9090682
then this

>>9090700
>>9090697
yeah

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Hi, I'm 12, what are greeks?

Okay, unironically (which is probably worse), I am 21 and I don't know what "the greeks" encompasses, so if anybody could explain, please do.

>>9090616
If you haven't, learn Greek and read them properly.

Then learn Latin and read the Romans.

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>>9090709
Fuck this chart. I made a better chart.

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>>9091374
THERE. IS. A. CHART.
WHY THE FUCK DOES NO-ONE EVER READ THE STICKY?

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>>9091416
Woah, I feel even more stupid now. Sorry for not reading the sticky. Thanks a lot!

have u read Republic?

>>9090616
If you want my advice:
>Greeks, (see chart).
>Romans, (see my chart, >>9091412)
>Christians, up to the 19th Century, (This includes The Bible, St. Augustine, Aquinus, Dante, Milton, and should also involve reading Gilgamesh, The Egyptians, The Avestas, and all the other stuff that influenced the original Bible in the first place)
>Muslims, (The Quran, Hadiths, Avicenna, Arabian Nights, etc.)
>Shakespeare, (self explanatory)
>Western Philosophers from Descartes to De Beauvoir/Wittgenstein (Descartes, Spinoza, Liebniz, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Frege, Russell, Husserl, Heidegger, Ayer, Sartre, Camus, Carnap, Wittgenstein, De Beauvoir, Foucalt, and Derrida)
After that, you're set to read basically whatever the fuck you want.

>>9091449
>Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights isn't relevant. Arabs consider it to be low literature for women and children.

Resume with the romans and master the medievals. Then move to Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, etc.
Now that I think of it, a "Master the Medievals" chart would be great.

>>9091449
>not including Chaucer and Dante

>>9091465
I did.
>The Bible, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Dante

>>9090630
ignore this garbage

>>9091470
No Chaucer though. You should read Chaucer before reading Shakespeare.

>>9091381
Because you need to read in the original language to preserve its value? I doubt anyone here has the time or capacity to pick up both Greek and Latin.

Also this Start With the Greeks bullshit is so tiresome; yes, the Greeks paved the way for Western Civilization but that is all. There are other cultures and civilizations which produced works just as 'deep' you pseudo.

>>9091909
Starting with the Greeks has some merit to it though because it introduced many of the concepts other philosophers set out to tackle. One could also start with Descartes however