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As someone who has read a huge part of extant Greek stuff and all the primary materials on this chart, here's what I think a beginner chart would look like:
> Read/skim through Jonathan Hall's History of Archaic Greece
> Hesiod's Work and Days, Theogony
> Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
> Read/skim P.J. Rhodes' History of the Classical Greek World
> Aeschylus' Persians, Prometheus Bound, and Oresteia
> Read large parts of Herodotus' Histories
> Sophocles' Electra and Theban Plays
> Aristophanes' The Clouds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs
> Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars
> Euripides' Alcestis, Medea, and Bacchae
> Extant fragments from Thales, Pythagoreans, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Zeno of Elea
> Plato's almost everything (no Laws, no Letters besides VII, can skip some of the "early" dialogues though I love them)
> Diogenes' saying and anecdotes
> Aristotle's Organon, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics
> Some history of Alexandrian Greece history
I think this does an infinitely better job of acquainting people w/ the Greeks and all of the relevant stuff from them.