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March 6th, 2019 | #1 |
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What are some must read books regarding the Ancient Greeks and Romans?
I only ask because I am currently reading and recording audiobooks that are much more modern, but there will come a point where I will wish to study the classical Greeks and Romans in depth. The only problem is that any library is stacked to the brim with information on this time period, and I only have so much time on my hands.
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March 7th, 2019 | #2 |
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Plutarch's Lives is an excellent primary source.
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The ancient Greeks and Romans wrote on completely different topics.
Some of them wrote poems, plays, hymns, epigrams, etc. Other people wrote about ancient history or they wrote memoirs as witnesses of events. Other people left their speeches intended for their citizens or for court. Other people wrote treatises on philosophy, rhetoric, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, etc. What do you want to read?
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Following is a link to the Table of contents of the Great Books of the Western World
(2nd edition, 1990) :: http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/bo...greatbooks.htm Full sets are for sale on ebay
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Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey
The Iliad most definitely.
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The meditations of Marcus Aurelius
http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680
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I'm reading Plutarch's Lives right now, and I just encountered these opening sentences to the book on Pericles:
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What are some must read
Amidst all of the Plutarch and Homer, can I offer something enjoyable if less thoughtful.
The Aethopica, or the Ethiopian Romance, was written by Heliodorus in about 200-300 AD, and is an example of Greek literature, the kind of popular reading. It is the story of Charicles and Theagenes. Charicles is born in Ethiopia, and her mother was so obsessed admiring a white marble statue that Charicles is born white, and is quickly gotten rid of. She grows up, has adventures with pirates, crooked priests, meets Theagenes, a noble Greek lad, and they have more adventures as a team, eventually getting back to Ethiopia, where the Ethiopians beat up an Egyptian army sent to kill Charicles. It's a great romp, with lots of modern plot settings and twists. It also dumps on Egyptians, since Greeks always saw them as crooks and pussies...sort of like our opinions of dagoes. The racial angle is a good twist, for in the end, the Ethiopians accept a white queen and king as their rulers. It gives you an example of what people liked to read in the classical world, as it was a very popular novel, and the translation by Moses Hadas is very fast and fun. It reads like a modern adventure romance. |
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As with many subjects, you can read commentary by others or you can go straight to the source itself.
By reading original material, you can come up with your own critical analysis and not just parrot what someone else thinks. That being said: An indispensable work for the study of ancient Greek history is The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. The war (between Athens and Sparta) took place over a period of years in the 5th century BCE. The author was a minor Athenian general who witnessed and participated in the war firsthand.
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