>Iliad and Odyssey>Aeneid>Theogony>Metamorphoses>ArgonauticaIs this enough to get the Greek stuff from Part 2?
>>24861951No, and half of those aren't Greek. Just read secondary literature on it.
>>24861951Read them anyway to derive some enjoyment. Iliad and Odyssey are pretty good
Greek drama actually pretty good, like Oedipus Rex, Prometheus bound, Frogs by Aristophanes, Hippolytus by Euripides.
>>24862030>Prometheus boundcap
>>24861993>>24862030This.
>>24861951https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/faust-parts-1-and-2/about-faust-parts-1-and-2
>>24861951... Well, Metamorphoses is Latin.
you're not supposed to recognize all the minor mythlets. The effect is calcilated to be overwhelming by design.
Nigga wrote the first half of part 2 to flex his knowledge of Greek mythology, reading all of those annotations was a chore. "Oh that character was... actually me, in metaphor! Kek" (Germanic smug) Diddy ahh nigga loving a 13 year old
Is Anna Swanwick's translation any good?
>>24864280Sounds based.
>>24861951I think Part 2 is not supposed to make much sense until the very end.
>>24861951Why even bother reading part 2?
>>24861951Can't you just appreciate a book for its own artistic merit..do you really have to "get" everything?
>>24865616Faust part two is quite different, written 24 years after the first. Only 20 people in the world have read it. Its obvious because people still think Faust made a deal with Mephistopheles when it was a bet
>>24865686>Can't you just appreciate a book for its own artistic merit..do you really have to "get" everything?pseud alert
>>24866516does that make the pedant a legitimate intellectual or an artist to you?
>>24866516It appears I struck a nerve
>>24866468>Only 20 people in the world have read itAnd I'm pretty sure all of them regret doing it.
>>24865686nta. I was gifted Poetics by Aristotle. I deemed absurd to read that book without having read at least Homer and the three main tragedians, so I read Homer, liked it and I got encouraged to read Hesiod, which wasn't included in my initial plan to understand Poetics. So you can start reading some works in order to understand other works, as a means to an end, and, in the end, liking those works themselves, which also helps you to enjoy more the "end" work you had in mind in the first place for which the others were means.
>>24868248given that they are all self hating germans
>>24865686You can't, pseud.
>>24865616Because the end of it when the angels descend from heaven to bring Faust up to heaven is one of the best parts of the whole thing. Sadly it takes 200 pages to get there.>>24868248I'm one of those 20 and I can confirm. I only liked the ending to part 2.
Fuck OP - what's the best English translation of Faust? For readability and quality, not autism.
>>24868721>translationich BITTE dich
>>24868248And one of them understood it (being Goethe himself)
