The ancient Greeks are thrown around a lot here, as well as on Veeky Forums.
My simple question is this: where should I start? I intend to take some time off more modern works so I can understand the roots of it all a little better.
I have the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Plato's Republic. If there's a preexisting guide to this all any pointers would be appreciated.
Also I guess general classical literature thread once I've had an answer.
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Why do you guys have so much trouble with the greeks that this question has to constantly be asked?
There aren't many extant greek texts to even read so it's not a question of something being hard to find.
Literally just google it and you will come up with all of them.
>There aren't many extant greek texts to even read
Don't make me cry user.
The great Hellenist Moses Hadas has a book I see from time to time in good used book stores (I also still possess a copy) called Ancilla to Greek Reading, which might prove helpful. If I were (you) I'd read Hesiod first (quick, easy, informative) and then move on to the historians Herodotus (fun) Thucydides (great) Xenophon (conclude with Anabasis) after which (you) can read the major plays and early lyric poets, etc.
USE THE THOROUGH CHART FFS
>thorough chart
>only listed work is for aristotle is metaphysics
dont
start with the sumerians
Start with Hume, Descartes, Kant & Nietzsche.
Then with Leibniz, Frege, Wittgenstein.
>not starting with the sticky
Illiad -> Oddysey -> Aenid -> Oedipus Rex