Can we get an update on those 2 Greeks images that float around in every Greek thread. I have finished the Odyssey and the Illiad and don't know where to go next, i have had different responses form anons and well I want a Veeky Forums consensus on the true order on reading Greek literature.
So what do? i'd make the image but i haven't read all these books, can anons who've read lots of the Greeks give their opinion.
Ryan Peterson
>tranflated by mr. Pope
Zachary Jones
>tranflated by Mr. Pope Don't they have an editor? lmao can't believe thay couldn't catch that
Robert Gomez
>tranflated >calling the Pope a Mr
weew
Gabriel Stewart
>Reading Pope You haven't read the iliad, boy.
Kayden Parker
Pope did a brilliant work. But it's not Homer.
Nolan Mitchell
I've just started reaading the Illiad and I'm at the point where I'm being told about where everyone is from, the shoutouts to every single city and a back story of the leader. I think I've read like 12 or so pages of this.
I've got a couple of questions
>How long more does it go?
>Does this happen again?
Joseph Lewis
That ends (or at least slows down) after the catalogue.
Evan Flores
It is only the Book II. Why people are so stupid?
Parker Stewart
Hesiod.
Until the end of book 2 and take pic related with you.
Colton Myers
Just read whatever you dumbfuck. The Greeks aren't a chore.
Austin Hernandez
>The Greeks aren't a chore. i know they're not a chore, but i don't want to miss out on a reference or anything because i went out of order if there is an order. which is why i made the thread asking for anons who have read more greeks than me for their opinion.
Sebastian Williams
It was like 7 pages long in my edition. Why do people bitch about it so much? Is this what happens when you're raised watching tv designed to be dynamic and colorful 100% of the time?
PS OP there will be no consensus. Just fucking read. There is no single perfect order.
Brayden Cook
There is no "proper" way to read philosophy, regardless of what Veeky Forums tells you, who knows what you're missing out on by reading the Greeks instead of something else as the supposed base?
Alexander Richardson
>PS OP there will be no consensus. Just fucking read. There is no single perfect order. yeah i guess ill just do the order that i wants. and as for the part you're in, the book gets ten times better, just power through that listing of ships and people. A lot of them you don't absolutely have to remember unless you're trying to be an expert in the Iliad, just write down the names of guys that keep coming up and who / what they did so keep them fresh, in 2 or 3 books you wont even need it anymore.
Jonathan Morris
Here it says Achilles is from Peleus. Isn't he from Pthia?
David Stewart
Hey lads, I'm near finishing Edith Hamilton's Mythology and would like to start Iliad right after that. What English translation is most recommended?
Kevin Sullivan
I don't get this. Surely NO translation can have the same rhymes or the same exact meter. Surely ALL of the translations have the same story and themes. What exactly is missing that is in other translations?
Don't just repeat its not Homer. None of them are. What specifically do the others have more of that make them closer to Homer?
Aiden Wright
Y-you're joking, right, user-kun? Surely you know what a long s is.
Hunter Taylor
Fagles' translation is the easiest to read, that's the one I'm reading now. I've heard Fitzgerald's receive a great deal of praise as well. And the general consensus on Pope's is that he is the most artistic.