Roman Literature

What can Veeky Forums tell me about Romen literature? Where to start and who to start with? What are considered essentials?

Start with the Greeks

>Virgil >Aeneid
>Ovid >Metamorphoses
>Catullus >poems
>don't bother with Cicero and Plautus
>don't bother without having started with the Greeks
>don't bother without having studied the history of Rome

Same question then for Greek literature

Pre-socratics to Plato to Aristotle

Wergilius

No, no, no.

>Homer and Hesiod
>Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes
>Herodotus and Thucydides
>Presocratics and sophists
>Plato
>Aristotle

Only Euclid and Hippocrates if you're incredibly serious.

Most of the roman historians are fairly interesting, especially those of the early imperial period, Tacitus in particular

plutarch roman lives

Add Galen too that bunch too.

Read Plotinus and the Greek Church Fathers if you want to achieve godliness.