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I have never visited this board, mostly because I read fantasy books and 'some' political

Can I please get some good recommendations on a broad range of classical Greece?

I want the basics too. I've gone back to do another degree in classical history and I'm afraid the materials are going to skew and spoil it

>> No.15735370 [DELETED] 

>>15735366
Do white people really?

>> No.15735383
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>> No.15735401

>>15735370
I wouldn't be surprised if in 2020 that's a anti white book?
Or is that a real recommendation

>> No.15735414

>>15735383
Thanks for this

>> No.15735834

>>15735383
Are there any lists/graphics like this for the histories of Rome? I'm looking to brush up on my knowledge of Roman history, but I don't know where to start.

>> No.15735975

>>15735366
You should start with Homer, as he is really the beginning of the western canon, and it will give you a good insight into the way people were back then.

I recommend reading The Iliad, The Oddyssey, and The Aeneid together in that order. Yes the Aeneid is Roman not Greek but its still something you should read, being probably Rome's greatest contribution to literature beyond the Stoics and a few of their poets, and it works best when you read those three as a trilogy.

Also you should begin Greek philosophy with Plato, reading The Symposium and then The Republic. The Republic is one of the most influential pieces of literature in western civilization.

Tbh I haven't read that much of the Greeks beyond that but give Xenophon a whirl, The Anabasis specifically.

>>15735383 this list is good, I say read the Homeric trilogy first, and read Plato when you first begin philosophy, but everything on this list should be good.

>> No.15736019

>>15735834
>The Aeneid
>The Metamorphoses
>Stoics
>Neoplatonists
Did Rome have anything else worth noting?

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>>15735383
fuck I feel like an absolute patrician having read all that already
Demosthenes should be there too

>> No.15736036

>>15736019
>Cicero
>Caesar's commentaries
>Plutarch
>Twelve Caesars

>> No.15736042

>>15736019
The historians are based as fuck (Livy, Polybius, Appian, Suetonius, Tacitus, etc.).

>> No.15736061

>>15736036
>>15736042
Ok revised list

>The Aeneid
>The Metamorphoses
>Stoics
>Neoplatonists
>Cicero
>Caesar's commentaries
>Plutarch
>Twelve Caesars
>Livy
>Polybius
>Appian
>Suetonius
>Tacitus

Anything else?

>> No.15736072

>>15736061
there's a shitton of good authors
you can go crazy with the Romans, depends on what you like

>> No.15736078

>>15736061
also Suetonius is the author of The Twelve Caesars

>> No.15736098

>>15735383
Put Hippocrates on here.

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>>15736175
>WHERE'S MUH AURELIUS KINO

>> No.15736314

>>15736019
>>15736036
>>15736042
>>15736061
>>15736175
You guys are awesome, thanks.

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>>15736314
Have fun. That should keep you busy for a while. All good shit, it's worth it.

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