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This book is full of wisdom and beauty

>he doesn't

>>20599011
Memoirs of Hadrian

Halfway through Memoirs of Hadrian, I've been finding it a strange book. So far, it has been a first-person "autobiography", Hadrian narrating his life. Effectively it's a history book, although one can't trust it as a source due to being fictional, yet from looking it up, it seems everything in the book is historically factual, at least to our knowledge of Hadrian.
Is that it, the point of the book being narrating history from the point of view of a historical person?

>women cant wri...

>>19939232
Memoirs of Hadrian

>>19834329
My eyes watered a few times in the chapter this is from, but I actually teared up when Hadrian buries Antinous.

>But I hesitated still about where to place the tomb. I recalled that in ordering rites of apotheosis everywhere, with funeral games, issues of coins, and statues in the public squares, I had made an exception for Rome, fearing to augment that animosity which more or less surrounds any foreign favorite. I told myself that I should not always be there to protect that sepulchre. The monument envisaged at the gates of Antinoopolis seemed too public also, and far from safe. I followed the priests' advice. On a mountainside in the Arabic range, some three leagues from the new city, they indicated to me one of those caverns formerly intended by Egypt's kings to serve as their funeral vaults. A team of oxen drew the sarcophagus up that grade; it was lowered with ropes to those subterranean corridors, and was then slid into position to lean against a wall of rock. The youth from Claudiopolis was descending into the tomb like a Pharaoh, or a Ptolemy. There we left him, alone. He was entering upon that endless tenure, without air, without light, without change of season, compared with which every life seems short; such was the stability to which he had attained, such perhaps was the peace. Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

>>19807064
This and also I, Claudius by Robert Graves.

>>18666637
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

>>18204276
Lesbians are over-represented among good female writers: Sappho, Aphra Benn, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Yourcenar, Iris Murdoch, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Camille Paglia... If a female author is actually good there's a very high chance that she is a lesbian. That is why I think lesbianism is real. It's too strong a correlation to be coincidence.

>>18099045
I haven't read Julian OP, but you might enjoy pic related if you haven't already read it

This

>>16689701
It's just a move anon. Historical fiction can reach great heights or it can be Bernard Cornwell. Both are fine.

I put it down for a while but it's time to finish it.

It is good?

>>13316684
pic related

I will be honest, I have not read many book by this women.
But this was excellent.