Which of the four great European masterpieces should I start reading?

The four great works of European literature are Homer's Epic, the Divine Comedy, Hamlet, and Faust.

Homer is a legendary figure who lived between the 9th and 8th centuries BC, most likely from the Aegean region of Asia Minor. He is said to be a blind professional musician and a great poet at the same time. Carrying the ancient Greek seven-stringed harp, he wandered around and sang his poems to people.

His poems, accompanied by the lyre, are beautiful and beautiful, with wonderful plots, and are very popular among people. He wrote two of the oldest epic poems in ancient Greece, the Ilion and the Odysseus, so they are historically known as the "Homeric epics". The history of ancient Greece from the 11th century BC to the 8th century BC is commonly known as the "Homeric Age", which is named after Homer's epic poems.

Dante wrote prolifically during his lifetime, the most valuable of which is undoubtedly the Divine Comedy.

Completed in 1601, Hamlet is the crowning achievement of Shakespeare, the giant of the Renaissance.

Faust is an epic masterpiece that Goethe devoted his life's work to.

It is recommended to start with Homer's epic! Learn about the history of Europe!

Next Hamlet.

Faust again.

The Last Divine Comedy.

Homer's Epic, The Divine Comedy, Hamlet, Faust.

Let's start with Shakespeare's Habret and experience the literature of sorrow.

The four great classics of Europe are:

1. Homer's epic:

According to legend, Homer's epic poem is a collective name for two epic poems written by the ancient Greek poet Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which were compiled by him based on the folk tanka.

Homer's epics, both epics are divided into 24 volumes. The Homeric Epic, written in a six-tone step, is the culmination of ancient Greek oral literature, and is the greatest work of ancient Greece and the greatest work of Western literature.

2. Divine Comedy:

The Divine Comedy is a long poem written by the famous Italian poet Dante Alighelli. Written between 1307 and 1321, the author reflects on the achievements and major issues of medieval culture through dialogues with famous figures in hell, purgatory, and paradise, and provides an "encyclopedic" view of the dawn of Renaissance humanist thought.

3. Faust:

Faust is a 12,111-line poetic drama written by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the first of which was published in 1808 and consists of 25 scenes. The second part consists of 27 scenes and is divided into five acts.

The whole play does not have a coherent plot from beginning to end, but takes the development and changes of Faust's thought as a clue, takes German folklore as the theme, and takes German and European society since the Renaissance as the background, writing a new bourgeois advanced intellectual who is dissatisfied with reality and tries his best to explore the meaning of life and the life path of social ideals. It is a poetic drama with a very good combination of realism and romanticism.

4. Hamlet:

Hamlet is the longest of all William Shakespeare's plays. It is also Shakespeare's most famous play, with a profoundly tragic significance. The complex characters and the rich and perfect tragic artistic techniques represent the highest achievements of the entire Western Renaissance literature.

The four famous works refer to the collective name of the four works that make the name of the world.

China's four famous novels are "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", and "Dream of Red Mansions".

The four famous works of Tan Kuanxiang in Europe are "Homer's Epic", "Divine Comedy", "Hamlet", and "Faust".

the famous four refers to the four famous novels collectively.

china 's four famous is" romance of the three kingdoms","the story by the water margin ,"journey to the west","a dream of red mansions".

europe's four classic is" homer's epic","divine comedy","hamlet","faust".

Dante's Divine Comedy

The book is divided into three parts: Hell, Purity, and Heaven, and Dante's "Divine Comedy" takes the form of a dream work that was customary in the Middle Ages, and he himself is the protagonist, writing about how he roams Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven when he is thirty-five years old.

Boccaccio, Decameron

The work tells the story of 10 young men and women who lived in a villa in the Florentine countryside to escape the Black Death, and each told a story every day, taking turns telling 100 stories in 10 days, hence the name "Decameron".

Four of Shakespeare's great tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.

Rabelais, The Legend of the Giants

It is divided into five parts.

Books I and II illustrate the claims of humanist doctrine by recounting the birth, education, and achievements of Kagandua and Pangguai; The last three parts show the vast social picture of the Middle Ages, exposing and criticizing various social ills.

Erasmus and his masterpiece Ode to an Fool

Cervantes and his masterpiece Don Quixote

Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Dream of Red Mansions".