Anyone got a infochart like this but for literature on the Roman

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There are annotated bibliographies made by scholars for these things but your ilk would never know

>>9676697
needs more strabo, caesar's civil wars, and if you want to go modern, instead of Rome, get L'Annalistique romaine by Chassignet.
some of the propaganda you could be better off with Ennius.

also, really, hbo rome? read the satyricon instead. decline and fall by gibbons should be there too

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>>9676697
>excluding Apuleius

>>9676668
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Charts

>>9676668
I've never understood why this guide puts Hesiod after Sophocles. Although honestly it wouldn't surprise me if he hasn't actually read Hesiod as his note on it seems to manage to imply that Elegies is attributed to Hesiod.

Also goes far too light on play recommendations. Recommending the complete works of Plato and Aristotle and almost completely neglecting all but one extant playwright is ridiculous.

>>9676723
>>9676741
The Roman chart was never complete, nor could it ever hope to be if it were to stay as concise as the Greek chart. Any of us who have half-seriously read any Roman stuff will know there is loads missing; the point is to serve as an intro to the epoch and hopefully cover sufficiently diverse bases, allowing readers new to Rome to be able to get a foothold in the subject matter and branch out on their own. No need to list every Livy volume on the chart; if a new reader likes Livy vol 1, he can read more Livy.

>>9676848
Some picks from the Greek chart are suspicious. I've rarely seen the Strauss book or the epic fragments on a shelf, never seen the Cambridge companion, and I know literally zero people who have read all of Aristotle. I think it's still a good start but hopefully long before you "finish" the chart, you've grown familiar enough with the material and are judicious enough to know what it lacks and what can be cut out.

Also just a personal opinion, but drama was a lot harder for me to get into than any other Greek genre. It eventually got fun, but didn't stick as fast or as strong as history, epic, or even philosophy. I think not many people are used to reading drama, so there's little experience to lean on when reading the Greek dramatists; the histories, epics, and even Plato can all be read in somewhat the same mood as fiction or modern history.