I want to read the entire Western Canon. I know that I have to

>>9873922
charts make you procrastinate
read Theogony - > Illiad -> Odyssey then come back

File: 1501832192235.jpg (1MB, 3672x3024px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 3672x3024px

>>9873922

>>9873922
There's like 20 different Greek infographics and they get posted every single day. If you've been on /lit/ for more than a week you've no doubt seen them posted dozens of times. How fucking new can you possibly be?

>>9873922
Good day, Comrade.

I am coming to the end of "the Greeks" after a few years of dedicated study. By the grace of chaos I have a "career" which allows me indulge in world literature all day (I should be writing, I know, but I'm a tired old fish flopping around on my wife's new rug).

To re-discover antiquity, I started with two books: Mythology by Edith Hamilton and The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. The first provides structure and framework, the second describes the substance. These works are essential because of their authors' dedication to primary source material and their relentless, sometimes exhausting commitment to citation.

When I finished the aforementioned, I reviewed the bibliography of each work. Not only did these contain each and every primary work necessary to grasp the classics, but they included secondary sources as well.

By the time I had finished, I saw in my era, the eras preceding mine, and the eras to come, all the common threads and familiar weavings that have been and will always be.

I am, in a sense, reanimated. Maybe I'll leave something for this place. Maybe I'll take it with me.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Tom.

P.S. — when you absorb classical Greece, read H.H. Scullard's Rome: From 753 to 320 A.D.; and from Gnacci to Nero, his follow up. From there you can begin with devouring Ovid and Co., though Greece was of course their backbone.

Peace & Luff

>>9873931
I found it very difficult do find some of this books
>>9873936
Thank you
>>9873996
My carreer is about engineering so I guess I'm doing this as a hobby. Any way thank you for your words