/lit/ - Literature

>>22020011
>it's a bit of both
same here. I have to read him for my degree but I also want to better my Latin prose and understand the history of the Gallic wars (to the extent that Caesar's descriptions of it is accurate)
>as for poetry my highest goals are the Aeneid and the Metamorphoses
I've gone through a handful of sections in the Metamorphoses - Pygmalion and Galatea, Baucis and Philemon, Pyramus and Thisbe, Polyphemus and Galatea, Daedalus and Icarus, Apollo and Daphne - and I really liked them. the Metamorphoses is probably my favorite work by Ovid it's a huge work, as I'm sure you know, so there's a lot to potentially like. I'm sure you'll find some of it you like too (maybe most of it)
>But for both prose and poetry I want to discover and read more authors than I'm currently aware of in my relatively cursory knowledge
one of the nice things about classical authors is that they do a fair bit of referencing other writings and authors explicitly, so while of course you could find some catalog of classical authors, you might be more easily guided just by following your interests and seeing what other authors and works come up
>>22020116
>then after a couple of years of Latin when I was already past the grammar and well into the input phase I think I felt like it was only natural to take a look at Greek too, and I really took my time with it with Athenaze, but it was worth it I think
interesting. I was in a similar situation. I had studied Latin, both formally and by myself - for about a couple years, but eventually decided that I wanted to try to do something with classics as a career. I had no experience with ancient Greek but one of my initial interests in classics was Greek philosophers, so Greek was the logical next step for me. I have actually come around to enjoy studying it more, though I do still like a lot of Latin authors and works. my Greek is still not as good as my Latin, but I think the language is more interesting and there's more interesting literature to read. I'm at the point where I am working through some difficult works, but I know eventually all the input I'm getting will be worth it