Okay Veeky Forums, I'm gonna start with the Greeks. I haven't read anything but 20th century american fiction for the last year and I'm ready to reset the clock. Based on pic related and the history of philosophy chart I have put together the following reading progression:
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
The Iliad, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer
The Histories, Herodotus
Three Theban Plays, Sophocles
Theogony,Hesiod
Works and Days, Hesiod
Elegias, Theognis
The First Philosophers
Complete Works, Plato
Complete Works, Aristotle
Fragments, Heraclitus
Fragments, Parmenides
On the Nature of Things, Epicurus
Persians and Other Plays, Aeschylus
Further reading: Epictetus, Aurelius, Cicero, Plutarch, etc.
I have a few general questions,
Anything critical that is missing? Anything that should be excised?
Are there any particularly egregious translations to be avoided?
The complete works of Plato and Aristotle is a bit ambitious, what are the highest priority writings?
Any notably great editions for any of these (preferably some that contain multiple of these)?
I haven't read most of these since high school so I am very excited to get back into it.