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Rate my haul and share your hauls and rate other hauls
Also LE GREEKS dual thread
What do you homos think?

>> No.21888431

foot..

>> No.21888437

>>21888412
>he fell for it
haha got another one lmao

>> No.21888451

>>21888412
nice toes, bro

>> No.21888452

>>21888412
Plz post the backs of those penguin cloth bound classic

>> No.21888525

>>21888452
I will in a minute, fren

>>21888451
>>21888431
Thanks bros

>> No.21888551
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Damn I need to get some more Edith Hamilton books. Also good haul.

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>>21888452

>> No.21888583

I also got some Gr**ks this week
>Xenophon - Constitution of the Lacedaemonians, Constitution of the Athenians
>Theophrastus - On Characters
>Plotinus - Eneads
>a dictionary on ancient mythology
>Stephen Fry - Troy, Heroes

>> No.21888587

>>21888412
>pedoguin classics

>> No.21888589
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>>21888559
Thanks, anon. Can't believe they're getting away with this. My version also has this, and it's a relatively pricey book(compared to regular penguins). Whose bright idea was it to stick a barcode on the cloth bound book....
The other two don't seem to have this problem.

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>>21888412
all looks good except your edition of the plays.

I recommend the University of Chicago editions edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore

>> No.21888605

>>21888589
Yeah quite annoying desu. Atleast it's not too bad. There's some stickers that rip entirely and leave white scraps like fucking skidmarks on underwear

>> No.21888608

>I told anon to start with the greeks and he actually did it the absolute madlad

>> No.21888614

>>21888598
I will probably get other editions, but all of it was already so expensive, I wanted to save some money somewhere. This edition has 16 plays and was only around $25. I didn't want to splurge on hardcovers for everything. Those do look gorgeous and I'll write it down to make sure I get them eventually. Thanks, freind

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>>21888412
I also recommend getting the Oxford book on the presocratics. You also need Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica and Ariostaphnes' plays.

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>>21888608
W-was I not supposed to??

>> No.21888654

>>21888618
>he fell for the meme

>> No.21888673

>>21888451
Nice penis sis

>> No.21888675

>>21888412
why all these books at once? why now?

>> No.21888686

>>21888437
Ikr some of the longest most boring books in existence.

>> No.21888722

>>21888675
Because I'm going to read them eventually. Why not get them now?

>> No.21888729

>>21888616
Noted, thank you

>> No.21888755

The Penguin classics translation of The Histories is ass btw.

>> No.21888772

>>21888412
cute toes

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>>21888755
Well it's greek, so it's pretty much all ass, isn't it?

>> No.21888776

>>21888589
I'd take that shit back

>> No.21888789

>>21888551
Thanks fren.
Yeah I heard that Mythology is good foundation for understanding the Homer and everything afterwards, but I also figured I may aswell get the greek way since it seems more targeted, while mythology covers various western cultures aparently

>> No.21888802

>>21888583
I assume those are more specific works that are less general in nature? I basically followed the /lit/ chart and took some recommendations from anons in other theads for this set. I'll eventually want to expand and cover more, but this will keep me busy for a long time

>> No.21888844

>>21888802
Yeah, I already have yours (except the Edith Hamilton books)

>> No.21889901

>>21888412
>all those translations
LMAO don't even waste ur time sis

>> No.21890497

>>21888598
Euripides, always and forever KING of plays

>> No.21890544
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>>21888412
Just downloaded all of those for FREE on my E-reader.

>> No.21890625

>>21890544
Enjoy. I prefer physical copies though, my kindle Oasis was so expensive and I barely even use it

>> No.21890692

>>21890497
lol fucking pleb lmao

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>this nigga starting with greeks

>> No.21890701

>>21888412
Do you actually intend to read them? I get the feeling all I am looking at is future landfill.

>> No.21890711

if that's what you really want to read then cool, but if they just got you with the swg spamming then they will just make you miserable

>> No.21890776

>>21888412
Very nice. :) You must be very pleased with this, I know I'd be. A couple of suggestions:
The First Philosophers published by Oxford University Press
Or a Presocratic Reader published by Hackett if you want something lighter, read these before Plato and
Aristotle: Desire to Understand, this is THE introduction to Aristotle.

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>>21888412

>> No.21890784

>>21890776
Oh, and also:
Aristophanes: Four Plays, published by Norton, and
Aesop's Fables, published by Oxford University Press

>> No.21890789

>>21888412
Shouldn't have gotten the clothbound books on the top right. I have one and wished I just got a regular paper cover copy. The art work on it rubs off real easy and collects dust weird on it

>> No.21891012

>>21888618
As long as you stick with it, you'll be fine. Your journey has just begun... give it the respect it deserves.

>> No.21891397

>>21888412
Herodotus sucked ass
Thucydides is a lot better
Xenophon wrote something comfy, but if you read Caesar you'll see how much he's lacking for a similar sort of structure. Xenophon was anything but a talented writer like Caesar of Thucydides.
Plato was disappointing to me but Aristotle was good.

>> No.21891969

>>21890544
You didn't read the book

>> No.21891976

>>21891397
>Herodotus sucked ass
Imagine getting filtered by Herodotus kek

>> No.21891979

>>21888605
>skid marks
It disgusts me to no end that so many people aren't capable of properly cleaning their own fucking ass. It's why I don't shake hands with people. Wretched filthy apes.

>> No.21891985

10/10
hope you enjoy.

>> No.21892060

>>21890789
I like them

>> No.21892065

>>21890776
>>21890784
Thank you! Noted!

>> No.21892213

>>21888772
:3

>> No.21892882

>>21891397
kys

>> No.21892886

>>21892882
rude

>> No.21892888

The Hamilton books are unnecessary
Should have got Ovid too

>> No.21893259

>>21888412
>apollodorus library of myths (if you want original sauce but Hamilton covers same stuff iirc)
>xenophons anabasis
>posthomerica - quintus of smyrnaea (since you got the aeneid sounds like you're cool with Roman fan fic, this will take you from the iliad to the Odyssey, and not in fragments)
Oh and of course some form of boon about Alexander the greats conquests as that takes you from the Greeks to the Hellenistic World which then concludes with the coming if Rome

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>>21890497
>no

>> No.21893265

>>21888412
>>21893259
But honestly, I've read most of those books. If you like Greek myths but haven't read the actual sources themselves, you'll love them.
Only thing I haven't been able to get into is the philosophy. Socrates just seems like a tard, and quite literally appears to be like a group of people xenophon spoke about that were destroying the youth (which is strange considering I think Socrates was one of xenophons teachers)

>> No.21893500

>>21888412
Shit translation of the plays and Homer. I see you've just chosen standard publishing companies for all of your picks and thought nothing of particular translations.

>> No.21893509

>>21893500
>Homer
Ok anon what's the correct translation of Homer to get? I'm not OP but I read Fagles last time

>> No.21893821

>>21891976
He was a shitty writer. Like a kid who forgot his ADHD medication, it's more annoying than anything.

>> No.21893897

>>21892882
Please refrain from behaving and talking this way in my thread. Thank you

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>>21893500
I was told to read fagels, but also told that the penguin translations are good, too. I will eventually read multiple translations anyways, including the plays.

>>21893259
>>21893265
Thank you for your recs, fren. I will bear them in mind once I finish these for my next round of purchases. I can understand not being super into the philosophy, personally I think the entire field is filled with tards who refused to be wrangled, but you need the greeks as a base because literally everyone after them is just (You)ing what they said angrily lol. I like mythology alot, so I can't wait to get into the plays and history.

>>21892888
Yea no one recommended the Hamilton books apart from mythology, which was supposedly the introduction to everything, but I figured I may as well get them anyways since it's the same author and they weren't super expensive

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>>21891397
I will remember you exact comment and be sure to have the exact opposite reaction as you just to make sure I'm full contraian
Herodotus is goated
Thucydides is a hack
Xenophon was better than him and you were filtered by his style and prose, faggot
Plato is literally the only good philosoper and Aristotle is bad

>> No.21894957

>>21893940
Herodotus was my favorite out of him, thucydides, and xenophon

Maybe it was just the translation but i enjoyed thucydides the least.

In >>21893821 defense though, Herodotus does go off on tangents. The entire first part is a tangent back to bronze age history so that he can eventually talk about the war with Persia.
I liked the tangents though

>> No.21894994

>>21893918
Hamilton becomes an invaluable reference when you need the base version of a myth before diving off into other versions and more critical assessments of it. More the realm of comparative religion or anthropology than philosophy.

>> No.21895039

>>21888412
reight my howl and sheir your'e howls and rate Other hols
also les greeks duall therd
wat doyou homows thinck?

>> No.21895093

>>21888412
Shit translations and/or shit paperbacks
Only Aristotle completed is good there

>> No.21895098

>>21888598
Beautiful

>> No.21895112

No Plautus???
Get on it.

>> No.21895158

>>21888412
>no meditations
>no foundational roman philosophy
other than that good haul, espeically love the hard back books, very aesthetic.

>> No.21895416

why do people purchase books when libraries exist?

>> No.21895621

>>21888412
You were suppose to learn greek and read them.
>i read the translation
You did not read the book.

>> No.21895623

>>21895416
I don't like sharing books with commoners

>> No.21895631

>translations

>> No.21895675

>>21888722
Because chances are you'll give up 200 pages into the first book you pick up and if you don't you'll get bored after reading a handful
Buying several books in the same genre at once because you'll read them eventually is just consumerism, I hope you learn from your mistake on that one

>> No.21895706

>>21895675
holy projection

>> No.21895724

>>21895706
He bought 15 books all of them quite demanding including the complete works of Aristotle and Plato, there's absolutely no chance he's ever reading all of it, he just liked the idea of owning them

>> No.21895735

>>21895724
now that is a less pathetic way of saying it, good job

>> No.21895743

>>21895675
>the same genre

>> No.21895907

>>21895724
>Aristotle
>Demanding
>basic geometry lectures and logic essays
what?

>> No.21895915

>>21895675
Retard detected, opinion discarded

>> No.21895932

>>21895675
>Because chances are you'll give up 200 pages into the first book you pick up and if you don't you'll get bored after reading a handful
Anon, I think your suffering from some sort of entertainment/multi-media burn out. Generally, I've noticed after I moved and had nothing. Is that when you actually get bored things like that become interesting, anything besides doing nothing is interesting if you don't allow yourself to lay on your bed or a couch.

>> No.21895955

>>21895675
>>21895724
Plato is the one and only philosopher you can just pick up and read with no outside knowledge, because it's actually the starting point. I first read his dialogues when I was 19-20 years old.

If you think Plato is so demanding it's likely no one reads him, r/books is absolutely more your speed and where you should be lurking. I don't even mean that in a mean way.

>> No.21895983

Hey retards stop @ing me to nitpick minute details of my post while completely missing the point that OP got trigger happy with books he's not going to read, I have more important threads to be in

>> No.21896000

But I am going to read them, dumbass

>> No.21896003

>>21895983
>@ing

>> No.21896068

>>21888583
I’m new to /lit/. Why did you censor Greeks?

>> No.21896075

>>21896068
Because they're faggots

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>>21896075
>>Because they're faggots
So am I

>> No.21896184

what are good translations of the plays
im renting the same book as op from the library and have been enjoying it but if there are better translations i'd like to buy them

>> No.21896193

>>21896184

>>21888598