/lit/ - Literature

I'm looking for the name of an author and his book. I'm fairly sure he is an American author and his work is a novel about a Roman emperor that lived and ruled somewhere in or around the Theodosian dynasty era, around the 4th or 5th century AD. I think the emperor's name is something August-something but I'm not 100% certain on any of these things.

pls help

>>11231968
>one chance at life to follow your aristocratic, amoral Will to Power
>waste it sheepishly wagecucking, telling yourself you can read and write on your free time, cuz' muh job security is everything, then post on lit to get validation from other plebs
Ugh
Ugh

Greeting and Salutations /lit/ !

I am starting to read some classic literature on my own for fun and self enrichment. Where or what should I read to help with interpreting/analyzing the books on my own for self study?

I'm trying my hand at being a neophyte autodidact. Thanks for any help you may provide!!

>>8653998

>>8322717
>assblasted sjw

There was nothing fedora about the story m8. Do you even know your memes?

>>6497266
>not knowing that individuals have free will

>>6222648
>this memeopinion

I'm sure there must be some YA thread where you'll find yourself more comfortable

>>5909534

Has no one on /lit/ read Nostoi?

r u even trying plebs?

>>4472364
I never used an "ad hom". Educate yourself, fuckwit (<-- this wan't an "ad hom" either), and learn what ad hominem means.
http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html

>>4472380
>You do realise that is a philosophical claim on itself, right?
No, it isn't. It's just common sense.

>>4342161
>robert frost sucks

>not having a binders and binders of notes for each work you study while also having an photographic memory of each page whilst obtaining each copy ever printed, including first editions

top blep

>not reading books in their original language

>>4230995
>buying dirty booger smeared used books

Modern philosophy begins with Descartes and ends with the Neo-Kantians. The important modern philosophers are Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Kant. Anything after is considered contemporary philsophy, which basically begins with Frege and Russell on the analytic hand, and Husserl on the continental hand. In short, read something about the history of western philosophy. Plebe.

>>4163580
>implying modern scholarship is anything but a heap of self-congratulatory rubbish
>implying modern scholarship will even be read 10 years from now
>implying the ancients aren´t sublime stylists to whom no modern, "objective" historian can compare
>implying the ancients aren´t men of true wisdom and noble outlook on life
>2766 AUC

>disliking Catcher in the Rye or Ender's Game

>>4029173
Qui videt multum fructum in versibus latinis sed non in Greacis nimium erat, quod litterae Graecae leguntur in omnibus fere gentibus, sed Latinus in finibus suis continetur.....

>>3870263
Because not everyone is so insipid as to equate the good life with the comfortable life.

/thread

>Chronological
>Greeks
>Not Hindus

Every. Fucking. Time.

>>3740167
This. I'm such a book snob and don't even care.

>mfw Brave New World hasn't been posted

>>3578238

>calling dune shit

>>3575716
>>3575716

So fucking dumb.