Classical Studies General Discussion - "The only way for us to become great, yes, inimitable, if it is possible, is the imitation of the Greeks" - Johann Winckelmann

[GGSurvivor]

I've been reading Plato and Aristotle recently, I'm currently in the former's early dialogues. Not sure what this Plato guy is really about tbh. I had finished a majority of Nietzsche's works this past summer and wanted to go back and read any influences that he had. I'm enthralled by the idea of looking at ancient civilizations, be it Hebrew, Greek, Roman, etc. and pulling their truths into the present with the technology available.

What's been your experience with the Greco-Romans and/or other Classical civilizations?

 

[Peeing In The Shower]

I'm enthralled by the idea of looking at ancient civilizations, be it Hebrew, Greek, Roman, etc. and pulling their truths into the present with the technology available.

Is that a convoluted way of saying "I'm going to read books"?

Anyway, it's the Greeks. Even the Romans thought it was the Greeks. Then after the WRE fell a bunch of Greeks carried on the Roman Empire in the East for about 1000 years.

 

[SmokelessFire]

Are you following a reading order for Plato? I always found it humorous that the traditional ordering starts with a pseudo-Plato, Alcibiades I (then Laches, then Charmides)

 

[GGSurvivor]

Is that a convoluted way of saying "I'm going to read books"?

no it's a convoluted way of saying that I like Heidegger and Nietzsche

Are you following a reading order for Plato?

Not specifically/intentionally, I just finished Nicomachean ethics and moved into his earlier dialogues, then Symposium, then Republic. I had already read Republic a few months ago, but I wasn't annotating or anything.

 

[HairyBadger]

Have you tried to change a tyre?

 

[HairyBadger]

Have you tried to change a tyre?

GGSurvivor: a tyre on you car.