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What are the must read roman and ancient greek books?
Posted on 8/23/19 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 8/23/19 at 10:33 pm
I feel like I need to be more educated on some of the ancient works.
I have read Iliad and Odyssey, have both in my library, as well as Plato's Republic. Want to own/read some more.
Off top of head, thinking about reading:
Sophocles' Three Theban Plays
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Aeneid
I have read Iliad and Odyssey, have both in my library, as well as Plato's Republic. Want to own/read some more.
Off top of head, thinking about reading:
Sophocles' Three Theban Plays
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Aeneid
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Posted on 8/23/19 at 11:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus
Posted on 8/24/19 at 5:42 am to beachdude
The primary sources and epics are the best suggestions of course, but Will Durant's work on the Greeks and Romans are very thorough, insightful, and well-written.
Posted on 8/24/19 at 9:28 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War.
Josephus on the Jewish revolt
Josephus on the Jewish revolt
Posted on 8/24/19 at 9:38 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Livy's The Early History of Rome.
Posted on 8/24/19 at 11:00 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
For Greeks
- The Argonautika - Apollonius of Rhodes
- The Histories - Herodotus
- History of the Peloponesian war - Thucydides
- Hellenica - Xenophon
- Theogony & Works and Days - Hesiod
- The Orestian Trilogy - Aeschylus
- Anabasis - Xenophon
- Anabasis of Alexander - Arrian
And a book of the lost epic fragments or posthomerica will help to round out the epic cycle (the cycle that contains Homer's works among others) it's self
- The Argonautika - Apollonius of Rhodes
- The Histories - Herodotus
- History of the Peloponesian war - Thucydides
- Hellenica - Xenophon
- Theogony & Works and Days - Hesiod
- The Orestian Trilogy - Aeschylus
- Anabasis - Xenophon
- Anabasis of Alexander - Arrian
And a book of the lost epic fragments or posthomerica will help to round out the epic cycle (the cycle that contains Homer's works among others) it's self
This post was edited on 8/24/19 at 11:02 am
Posted on 8/25/19 at 1:47 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
None of them. That crap is boring. History began when Rome fell.
That’s when Western society got interesting.
That’s when Western society got interesting.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 7:18 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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HailHailtoMichigan!
Commentarii de Bello Gallico
Julius Caesar's personal account of the wars in Gaul
Posted on 8/26/19 at 10:06 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I, Claudius by Robert Graves. It's a novel written as an autobiography of Claudius. Good book and informative too. The audio book I checked out from EBRPL was very entertaining.
This post was edited on 8/26/19 at 10:07 am
Posted on 8/26/19 at 11:04 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Horace's Odes
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Cicero's de Republica
Virgil, Livy, Tacitus, etc.
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Cicero's de Republica
Virgil, Livy, Tacitus, etc.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 2:08 pm to bayoubengals88
bayoubengals88,
What parts of Roman history do you know that you find uninteresting? Early monarchy? Tarquinius Superbus throwing Servius, his father-in-law, down the stairs of the Curia? Early Republican history? Verginia's father stabbing her to death with a butcher's knife so that she avoid the lustful and corrupt Appius Claudius the Decemvir? Perhaps the later Republican period? Gaius Marius' shameful end to an otherwise glorious career - a "reign of terror" for the Second Founder of Rome who had conquered the invading Teutones? Or perhaps Gaius Octavius' cementing of imperial power where his great uncle (Julius Caesar) had failed? I won't even mention Elagabalus, perhaps he's too scandalous. You find these dull, eh? Or have you just not yet familiarized yourself with the details of Roman history, the foundations of Western Civilization?
What parts of Roman history do you know that you find uninteresting? Early monarchy? Tarquinius Superbus throwing Servius, his father-in-law, down the stairs of the Curia? Early Republican history? Verginia's father stabbing her to death with a butcher's knife so that she avoid the lustful and corrupt Appius Claudius the Decemvir? Perhaps the later Republican period? Gaius Marius' shameful end to an otherwise glorious career - a "reign of terror" for the Second Founder of Rome who had conquered the invading Teutones? Or perhaps Gaius Octavius' cementing of imperial power where his great uncle (Julius Caesar) had failed? I won't even mention Elagabalus, perhaps he's too scandalous. You find these dull, eh? Or have you just not yet familiarized yourself with the details of Roman history, the foundations of Western Civilization?
Posted on 9/1/19 at 4:37 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Something of a tangent, but the Apocrypha, Gnostic gospels, and other lesser known early Christian works. The heretical ones can get really weird...and interesting.
Just try not to get sucked into the vortex of history conspiracy theories associated with them (Dan Brown is a fiction writer)
Just try not to get sucked into the vortex of history conspiracy theories associated with them (Dan Brown is a fiction writer)
Posted on 9/1/19 at 7:36 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Zackary Schneider's 300
This post was edited on 9/1/19 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 9/2/19 at 7:53 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Plutarch's Parallel lives is enjoyable.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:51 am to ManBearTiger
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Zackary Schneider's 300
One of those cases where it's good, but not as good as the book
Kinda like troy
Posted on 9/2/19 at 3:03 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'll second I, Claudius and add 12 Caesars
Posted on 9/2/19 at 5:40 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Plutarch
Suetonius
Tacitus
Fun read is Colleen McCullough's First Man in Rome series.
Suetonius
Tacitus
Fun read is Colleen McCullough's First Man in Rome series.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:49 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
The Nicomachean Ethics.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 11:56 am to Azazello
quote:
Commentarii de Bello Gallico
Julius Caesar's personal account of the wars in Gaul
I had to translate most of this in my 4th latin at LSU, and it still gives me nightmares (the translation work). Caesar was very Trump-esque in his self aggrandizement and derision of his opponents.
Posted on 9/6/19 at 12:28 pm to sertorius
Bayoubengal is just fricking around. Doesn’t merit a response.
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