I created a reading curriculum based on a few of the charts that commonly get posted on here, generally centered around the western canon. Let me know what you think.INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW COURSECourse 100 - The Core Western Canon Fall Semester (6051 pages) 101 - Start with the Greeks 101a - Mythology by Edith Hamilton 101b - The Iliad by Homer (Fagles) 101c - The Odyssey by Homer (Fagles) 102 - The Old Testament 102a - The Old Testament (King James Version) 103 - Greeks Continued 103a - The Histories by Herodotus 103b - The First Philosophers by Waterfield 104 - Plato 104a - Plato: Complete Works Spring Semester (6868 pages) 105 - Aristotle 105a - The Complete Works of Aristotle 106 - The New Testament 106a - The New Testament (King James Version) 107 - Nietzsche 107a - The World As Will And Representation (Volume 1) by Schopenhauer 107b - The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche 107c - Human, All Too Human by Nietzsche 107d - Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ 107e - Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche 107f - On The Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche 107g - The Gay Science by Nietzsche 107h - Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche 107i - Ecce Homo by Nietzsche
>>25322413Course 200 - The Bronze Age & Ancient Greece Fall Semester (8167 pages) 201 - The Bronze Age Overview 201a - Ancient Near East by Kuhrt 201b - The Ancient Near East by Pritchard 202 - Mesopotamia 202a - Early Mesopotamia by Postgate 202b - Ancient Iraq by Roux 202c - Myths from Mesopotamia by Dalley 202d - Before the Muses by Foster 203 - Sumer 203a - The Sumerians by Kramer 203b - Sumerian Mythology by Kramer 204 - Egypt 204a - Egyptian Mythology by Pinch 204b - The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by Shaw 204c - Writings from Ancient Egypt by Wilkinson 204d - The Tale of Sinuhe by Parkinson 204e - The Pyramid Texts by Faulkner 204f - The Book of the Dead by Faulkner 205 - Canaan 205a - Canaan and Israel in Antiquity by Noll 205b - Stories from Ancient Canaan by Coogan 205c - Ugaritic Narrative Poetry by Parker 206 - Hitti 206a - The Hittites by Gurney 206b - Hittite Myths by Hoffner 206c - Hittite Prayers by Singer Spring Semester (7274 pages) 207 - Ancient Greece I 207a - Ancient Greece (Oxford) 207b - The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus (Oxford) 207c - The First Poets by Schmidt 207d - The Iliad, Or, the Poem of Force by Weil 207e - The Trojan War by Strauss 207f - Epic Greek Fragments by West 207g - The World of Odysseus by Finley 208 - Homer 208a - The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer (Chapman) 209 - Ancient Greece II 209a - The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles 209b - The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre 209c - Hesiod and Theognis 209d - History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 209e - The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon 209f - Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes 209g - The Oresteia by Aeschylus 209h - Medea and Other Plays by Euripedes 209i - The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy Vol I (Cambridge) 209j - The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy Vol II (Cambridge) 209k - The Cynic Philosophers
>>25322415Course 300 - Ancient Rome Fall Semester (5565 pages) 301 - Roman History I 301a - A Brief History of the Romans (Oxford) 301b - The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome by Scarre 301c - The Early History of Rome by Livy 302 - Roman Poems 302a - The Aeneid by Virgil (Fagles) 302b - The Metamorphoses of Ovid 302c - The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace 302d - The Thebaid by Statius 302e - The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal 302f - The Complete Poems of Catullus 303 - Roman History II 303a - The Gallic War by Caesar 303b - The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius 303c - Amphitryon, and two other plays by Plautus 303d - The Deeds of the Divine Augustus 303e - The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus 303f - The Wars of the Jews by Josephus Spring Semester (5590 pages) 304 - Roman Philosophy 304a - The Nature of Things by Lucretius 304b - The Republic and The Laws by Cicero 304c - The Epicurus Reader by Inwood 304d - Letters from a Stoic by Seneca 304e - Meditations by Aurelius 304f - The Essential Plotinus 305 - The Decline of Rome 305a - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireCourse 400 - Medieval Europe Fall Semester (6620 pages) 401 - The Medieval Period 401a - A Short History of the Middle Ages by Rosenwein 401b - Confessions by Augustine 401c - City of God by Augustine 401d - The Poetic Edda 401e - The Song of Roland 401f - The Nibelungenlied 401g - The Song of the Cid 401h - Summa Contra Gentiles, Book One by Aquinas Spring Semester (7928 pages) 402 - 14th Century Europe 402a - A Distant Mirror by Tuchman 402b - The Inferno by Dante 402c - Purgatorio by Dante 402d - Paradiso by Dante 402e - The Decameron by Boccaccio 402f - The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
>>25322416Course 500 - Early Modern Europe Fall Semester (5968 pages) 501 - The Renaissance 501a - The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt 501b - Le Morte d'Arthur by Malory 501c - Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais 501d - The Prince by Machiavelli 501e - The Complete Essays by Montaigne 501f - Don Quixote by Cervantes Spring Semester (6172 pages) 502 - Shakespeare 502a - The Norton Shakespeare 503 - The Baroque Era 503a - The Century of Revolution by Hill 503b - Meditations by Descartes 503c - Leviathan by Hobbes 503d - Paradise Lost by Milton 503e - Ethics by Spinoza 503f - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by LockeCourse 600 - Modern Europe Fall Semester (5892 pages) 601 - The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism 601a - The Enlightenment by Gay 601b - Robinson Crusoe by Defoe 601c - Gulliver's Travels by Swift 601d - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Hume 601e - Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works by Winckelmann 601f - Candide by Voltaire 601g - The Social Contract by Rousseau 601h - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne 601i - The Wealth of Nations by Smith 601j - Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography 601k - The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe 601l - Critique of Pure Reason by Kant Spring Semester (5830 pages) 602 - Romanticism and Early Realism 602a - The Age of Revolution by Hobsbawm 602b - Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Blake 602c - Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel 602d - Faust, Part I by Goethe 602e - Faust, Part II by Goethe 602f - The Red and the Black by Stendhal 602g - Père Goriot by Balzac 602h - A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov 602i - Dead Souls by Gogol 602j - Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard 602k - The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas 602l - Wuthering Heights by Bronte 603 - Moby Dick 603a - Moby Dick by Melville
>>25322418Course 700 - Nietzsche Fall Semester (6334 pages) 701 - Prelude to Nietzsche 701a - Schnitzler's Century by Gay 701b - Nature and Selected Essays by Emerson 701c - The Essence of Christianity by Feuerbach 701d - The History of Materialism by Lange 701e - The Unique and Its Property by Stirner 701f - Selected Verse by Heine 701g - On Liberty by Mill 701h - The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner 701i - An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races by Gobineau 701j - Les Fleurs du mal by Baudelaire 701k - On the Origin of Species by Darwin 702 - Dostoevsky 702a - Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky 702b - Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky 702c - The Idiot by Dostoevsky 702d - The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky Spring Semester (6519 pages) 703 - Nietzsche 703a - The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Nietzsche (Cambridge) 703b - Unfashionable Observations by Nietzsche (Stanford) 703c - Human, All Too Human I by Nietzsche (Stanford) 703d - Human, All Too Human II by Nietzsche (Stanford) 703e - Dawn by Nietzsche (Stanford) 703f - The Gay Science by Nietzsche (Cambridge) 703g - Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche (Cambridge) 703h - Beyond Good and Evil & On the Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche (Stanford) 703i - The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols by Nietzsche (Cambridge) 703j - Unpublished Writings from the period of Unfashionable Observations by Nietzsche (Stanford) 703k - Unpublished Fragments from the period of Dawn by Nietzsche (Stanford) 703l - Unpublished Fragments from the period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche (Stanford) 703m - Unpublished Fragments (Spring 1885-Spring 1886) by Nietzsche (Stanford)
>>25322420OPTIONAL COURSECourse 800 - Linguistics 801 - Proto-Indo-European 801a - Historical Linguistics by Campbell 801b - Indo-European Language and Culture by Fortson 801c - The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European by Mallory 801d - Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics by Szemerenyi 801e - Indo-European Linguistics by Clackson 801f - Indo-European Linguistics by Meier- Brugger 801g - The Indo-European Languages by Kapovic 801h - Indo-European Poetry and Myth by West 801i - The Indo-Aryan Controversy by Bryant 802 - Ancient Greek 802a - Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Vol. I by Balme 802b - Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Vol. II by Balme 802c - Xenophon's Anabasis by Steadman 802d - Lysias' On the Murder of Eratosthenes by Steadman 802e - Loeb's Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Volume I) 802f - Homer's Iliad 6 and 22 by Steadman 802g - Homer's Odyssey 9–12 by Steadman 802h - An Odyssey Reader: Selections from Books 1–12 by Draper 802i - Greek Grammar by Smyth 802j - An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell 802k - A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect by Cunliffe 802l - Homeric Vocabularies: Greek and English Word-Lists by Owen 802m - Etymological Dictionary of Greek by Beekes 802n - Vox Graeca: The Pronunciation of Classical Greek by Allen 802o - A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity by Christidis 802p - The Greek Language by Palmer 802q - The Iliad of Homer a Parsed Interlinear Text, Books 1-24 by Jackson 802r - The Iliad by Homer (in Homeric Greek) 802s - The Odyssey by Homer (in Homeric Greek)
>>25322421Course 800 - Linguistics (cont.) 803 - Latin 803a - Cambridge Latin Course, Book I 803b - Lingua Latina: Familia Romana by Orberg 803c - Lingua Latina: Colloquia Personarum by Orberg 803d - Lingua Latina: Sermones Romani by Orberg 803e - Lingua Latina: Commentarii De Bello Gallico by Orberg 803f - Lingua Latina: Roma Aeterna by Orberg 803g - Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar 803h - Oxford Latin Dictionary 803i - Etymological Dictionary of Latin by Vaan 803j - Loeb's Cornelius Nepos 803k - Loeb's Florus 803l - Loeb's Quintus Curtius 803m - Loeb's Caesar The Civil Wars 803n - The Latin Language by Palmer 803o - Latin A Lingustic Introduction by Oniga 803p - Vox Latina by Allen 803q - The Blackwell History of the Latin Language by Clackson 803r - Ad Infinitum by Ostler 803s - Story of a World Language: Latin by Leonhardt
Impressive. 6-8k pages in 4 months is a lot.
I like the charts made by >NEET FEET
>>25322413I can tell you have an extremely reddit worldview but I appreciate the effort
>>25322819Also I have no idea why you included shit about Sumeria, it was near totally forgotten when Rome was newly born. It's irrelevant to Western culture.
OP have you seen these?http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.htmlhttp://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtother.html
>>25322424Wtf is this? Linguistics is not about memorizing Latin
Why is Nietzche on twice, once with the Greeks? Please don't tell me you take him to be an authority on the Greeks. Second, he doesn't merit that much attention as a modern in any survey. Third, although it's not quite as bad, you do the common thing is essentially skipping from middle antiquity to modernity with stop overs only in Augustine and Aquinas. So no Boethius (most copied author of the era), the Eastern patrimony is completely ignored, no other Patristics, no late Platonists (no Islamics either obviously). That would be one thing, but it's a little weird to have two semesters on Nietzche and to read his entire corpus, with its critique of Christianity largely centered on responding to the 19th century Protestant pietism meets mass politics he was familiar with, and then to largely skip over the Christian tradition being criticized as a core part of the project. One gets the critique, but little of what is being critiqued.Renaissance philosophy is wholly ignored as well it seems, like the late Greeks.
>>25322893>BoethiusAre you the anon who mentioned he completed his thesis on the man for his Doctorate in philosophy?
>>25322826I'm not the poster, but he may be using the term in a more general sense to mean the study of languages - so he sneaked in all his Latin/Greek titles under that rubric. But yes, you're right, under modern academic norms, it's incorrect to put classics/very language-specific/paedagogical materials under Linguistics.
25322448I tried to make it roughly equivalent to a full course load at a rigorous university. On average it works out to 40 pages of reading a day over a full year, with built in skip days. I wanted the reading pace to be ambitious but achievable 25322812Yeah I like that chart too, but if I had included everything in that chart it would've been even longer than it already is25322819Aside from the history books, which I am the least intent on keeping, the vast majority of the books were taken from charts made by this board25322822picrel25322824I have not, thank you25322893For Course 100 I wanted it to be an introductory overview course for anyone who didn't feel like doing all 8. Homer, Plato, Aristotle are all obviously mandatory for such a brief list, and Nietzsche seemed like the next obvious choice after them. I understand some may disagree with that but I don't think you'd be able to find any consensus on who to include in that spot if not him. I don't take Nietzsche to be an authority on the Greeks but I don't think he was irrelevant either. I included a lot of material to contextualize ancient Greece, not just Nietzsche. I view some rereading as beneficial, I included Homer three times, and I thought about putting Plato and Aristotle twice as well, but their complete works are too long to make that easy, and there was a lot of other Greek material that I wanted to include. If you have any suggestions for books I should switch out, I'd like to hear them. Christianity was sort of hard to include directly in some areas without wanting to take any particular stance, I included a lot of Christian works of literature but not as much philosophy. In general this list is more concerned with literature than philosophy, although I tried to include the most influential works of each era. Anyway I appreciate the feedback. No idea why this website thinks this post is spam. Apologies for the formatting
>>25322413What i am gathering looking at these lists were some linguistic reading to nietzsche and latin and i thjnk this were place location that where comparative literature were useful and to bring danto at this place to alright what has value to ask about here to extend some to analytical categories danto were going on about with nietzche as philosopher and extending that to latin and that 304d - Letters from a Stoic by Seneca or something like that
>>25322893Buddy, the Greek and Latin works in this list are just supplementary to reading Nietzsche for OP. It's pretty obvious that this guy seems to think world-history and literature culminates in and around Nietzsche's judgements of it.This is the strangest and least self-aware reading list, given it's claims to the Western Canon, that I've ever seen.
