So I'm working through pic related, but I feel like it skips

>>9267702
To add to this, some stories, like that of Narcissus drowning feels like rather advanced topics of literature. Not like something that is a "start with..." anything.

>>9267702
>>9267734
is this supposed to be a joke?
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>>9267930
No

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>>9267702
its a pop intro book what did you expect

if you want an in depth history of greek writing then check lesky's a history of greek literature

>>9267702
You think you're supposed to start with the Greeks because they're simpler or less "advanced" or something? Just because theirs was the first Western literature doesn't mean they wrote for children. Literature doesn't "develop" linearly starting with the simplest forms and concepts. That's a ridiculously misguided idea; get it out of your head fast if you want to enjoy the Greeks.

As for earlier writing, that would be the Sumerians and other Mesopotamians. No, they are not "simpler" than the Greeks. Finish your Hamilton first though.

>>9271302
No, but isn't the idea to start with them because a lot of themes and ideas modern authors use, they also used? But not all their ideas are theirs, what's the difference between reading a modern author in a Narcissus like story, or reading the Narcissus story itself, if the modern author is doing to the Greek what the Greek is doing to some earlier, simpler story (Just as the modern story would be more advanced than the Greek one)?