>hear about muh greeks>about how interesting and different ancient people were>fall for it>buy pic relI think I unironically prefer AI hallucinations over this
i'm so depressed and enraged about the society-wide death of imagination. i'm not saying i'm above it, it's affected me too.
Plays are probably not the most accessible form of ancient Greek writing, especially Euripides who is something of an innovator. Try Plato
>>25292769>he didn't read euripides in secondary school Truly hopeless.
>>25292769start with Potter then, find something for your intellectual magnitude to enjoy.
>>25292809try to read Anabasis. Or Cicero. Or Herodotus.
>>25292769my best advice if you want to get into the right ancient mindset: watch pasolini's oedipus rex; read heidegger's (short) essay about the ode on man from antigone; read (if you have time) nietzsche's birth of tragedy and dh lawrence's etruscan palaces; get some red wine, sit outside at night and listen to this album youtube.com/watch?v=PdIcW18n_cg
>>25292769Start with Xenophon's Anabasis
99% of the book is just stuff like this, reading this is like eating wood.
>>25292819>>25292821I don't think you're being sincere
>>25292824why? it reads like modern-ish adventure, it's not overly philosophical.
>>25292824>AnabasisTraditionally, Anabasis is one of the first unabridged texts studied by students of classical Greek, because of its clear and unadorned prose style in relatively pure Attic dialect—not unlike Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico for Latin students. Perhaps not coincidentally, they are both autobiographical tales of military adventure, told in the third person.[8]what more do you need?
>>25292826I hate adventure
>>25292823>reading this is like eating wood.reading shouldn't be like eating anything, it's an active creative process, you have to literally construct ancient greece in your mind when reading this, hear the winds howling on the plain and feel the marble steps of the amphitheatre beneath you - you have to remember how recently you and your people crawled out of the blood-soaked mythic darkness and won yourselves a civilisation and a culture
>>25292824>>25292831Anabasis is good because it's real life and not some philosophical ramblings, and it shows the way the Greeks operate on an day-by-day basis. It's a good way to step into the Greek boots (or sandals) so to speak. You should read Birth of Tragedy too, for similar reasons.
>>25292831wasn't Potter teenager detective adventure?
>>25292769Starting with Euripedes when you have zero appreciation for the greeks is a bad idea.
>>25292823>>25292769Try doing a little bit of research before picking a random book. Euripides has 19 tragedies, these editions on purpose choose to put 2 good along with 2 bad so that they can release as many volumes as possible. All 19 of them fit in a single volume, though. In this case, Medea and Hippolytus are the good ones. Hope I don't offend the three alcestis-children of heracles fans.Anyways, start with Homer and please search for an introduction to The Iliad, since the story assumes you already know the golden apple myth. Iphigenia's sacrifice too.
>>25292820NTA but I'd also recommend Iphigenia (1977)
>>25292943This.OP you should have started with Sophocles
>>25292823'ing' on 'age
>>25292769>>25292823Bait. I bet you you actually love the Greeks OP, and you've got all these blokes on a string.Only at Miller Grove.
>>25292823When you are reading a play you need to actuslly imagine it being acted out on stage
>>25294549How am I supposed to do that? Like imagine a Greek play? In my mind? In colour?
>>25292769Euripides is generally disliked on this board because he isn’t so much concerned with telling the myths as Aeschylus and Sophocles are but rather using already established myths as a way to combat Athenian social institutions of his own time. Ex, Medea is about Athens being racist to foreigners and about divorce laws. Women of Troy is about the Melian siege where Athens forces killed civilians If you want to be introduced to the playwrights it is better to read the other two guys for that purpose
>>25296172Euripides isn’t disliked in himself but as a signifier for libtardism, the same way leftists “hate” certain artists not for aesthetic reasons but because of what they represent. This is all very stupid.
>>25295872Yes?
>>25296180But colour was not invented yet
How much is the Ted Hughes Alcestis pumped up from other translations? I loved the hell out if it but haven‘t read any others and suspect there were pretty broad alterations made as his own read on marital self-sacrifice and turning the Heracles episode into a kind of ecstatic mini-mythos.
