William Faulkner
2. Franz Kafka
3. Virginia Woolf
4. James Joyce
5. Gertrude Stein
6. Samuel Beckett
7. Vladimir Nabokov
8. Anton Chekhov
9. Marcel Proust
10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)00:17:29 No.10236737?
>>10236651 (OP)
>gertrude stein
>no philosophers
>no shakespear

hat the fuck is this shitlist ?
1- William Shakespeare
2- Victor Hugo
3- Molière
4- Dostoyevsky
5- Tolstoy
6- Proust
7- Michel de Montaigne
8- Corneille
9- Goethe
10- Kafka

>gertrude stein
>no philosophers
>no shakespeare

Homer, Herodotus and Ovid/Hesiod
Lattimore and Mandelbaum for accuracy meme, Pope and Dryden for the best poetic reinterpretation in the western canon
Then Tragedies and Philosophy (don't forget Heraclitus and Parmenides)
If you're a history newb read some wikis before i guess
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)06:52:31 No.10237877?>>10237890 >>10237908
>>10237825

He's asking about philosophy, not literature. Start with Plato and read everything he wrote. You'll know where to go from there.

Nothing else is really necessary although it would be very helpful to have read the Iliad and Odyssey. The translations don't matter so just pick one that you feel most comfortable with. Edith Hamilton's book on Mythology can be really useful too but again, not necessary.
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)06:56:14 No.10237890?>>10237896
>>10237877
>Start with Plato
Read my post dummy
Start with Parmenides or go fuck your mother
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)06:57:28 No.10237896?>>10237901
>>10237890

I read it before I replied to you. Why are you repeating yourself?
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)06:59:03 No.10237901?
>>10237896
I feel strongly for Parmenides OKAY!? Back off
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)07:01:35 No.10237905?>>10238223
Plato
(Pseudo-)Dionysius the Areopagite
Gregory the Theologian
Maximos the Confessor
Symeon the New Theologian
Gregory Palamas

You won't know it until you read them, but this is what you're asking for.
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)07:01:38 No.10237906?
>>10237825
hesiod is trash
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)07:01:48 No.10237908?
>>10237811 (OP)
>>10237877
To be fair I agree that starting with mythology and presocratics is a better start than just hopping into Plato. Parmenides and Heraclitus pay off big time down the road, and they are short reads. You can skip the mythology if you are already familiar with the stories.
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)08:58:09 No.10238223?
>>10237905
Plato
Plotinus
Porphyry
Iamblichus
Synesius
Proclus

You don't know it until you read them, but most of the Abrahamic mystics jacked their shit and modified it slightly to suit their fancy.
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 Anonymous  11/07/17(Tue)09:15:36 No.10238262?>>10238271
>>10237811 (OP)
Plato’s five dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Plato’s Republic

Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics

Lucretius - on the nature of things (insight into Epicureanism)

Get a general overview of the Pre-Socratic’s thought ‘Thales & co’ from Nietzsche’s “Philosophy in the tragic age of the Greeks”

Then go Straight to Nietzsche’s Beyond good and Evil and then to Leo Strauss’s ‘Natural Right and History’

Read Rousseau’s first two discourses