/lit/ - Literature

>>13101597
Most of the Roman stuff is garbage. Probably not even written by Romans but by some medieval monk.

>>13101597
>Holy shit this is boring.
You're reading a book, what did you expect?

>>13101597
There aren't many reasons to read Svetonius.
Tacitus is more engaging

>>13101597
Maybe you should read something like Rubicon if you want something more exciting then

>>13101597
No it's not you faggot.
All the crazy shit that the Emperors did is entertaining to read.

>>13101781
Agreed. Clearly OP's shitposting; his shitguessing as to the book's contents reveals that.

>>13101597
But did you get to the part where he mentions that Gaius would fuck other mens wives, and if he found anything too wrong with them, he would file divorce on behalf of the guy?

Horace was a fun read

>>13102325
You know what else is a fun read ?
The Bible

>>13102330
No, that was a slog

>>13102227
I've read Caesars, Augustus' and half way through Tiberius lifes. The whole structure of how he writes biographies is incredibly boring and a lot of the shit he writes about just sounds like he pulled it out of his ass, which he probably did. He should've reduced what he learned from the letter archives down to something more readable. But that probably wouldn't sell as much. But even as entertainment it seems trite.

>>13101597
fuckin plebs

>>13102357
Maybe in the sense that it's essentially what's become tabloid journalism, which is indeed insipid.

>>13102337
Nothing good comes easy

>>13102471
It wasn’t good

>>13102485
You weren't in the right state of mind.

what are the comfiest classics? mine is pic related

>>13102534
I hate advertisers

>>13102485
>The Bible
>"it wasn't good"
Trip fags are cosmically complete in their incompleteness. We should all strive to be so minute, so incomplete.

>>13102650
Nobody pays me

>>13102545
Reading his descriptions of the Nile delta and of the Saharan pgymies takes me back to my childhood.

>>13102664
>I’m a gullible advertiser
Makes little difference

>>13102545
More of this.

Is Livy less boring than Suetonius?
Anyone read Jeager?

>>13102437
My main gripe is the repetitiveness of the whole thing. I've moved on to Dio for now who's a lot more enjoyable to read so far, at least from what is left of his work.

>reading translations
lmfao

>>13102807
Stultus es

>>13102816
Te rogo Papillo, das mihi vaginam tuam

>>13102845
Papillo
Papilionem
Hmm

>>13102689
I have nothing to hide from you

>>13102855
>"What is vocative ?"

>>13102861
Btw Papilio.
That was a typo

omnes papiliones necandi sunt.

>>13102855
>>13102855
Arbys

>>13102471
Nothing good comes easy, aka:
"Everything bad comes easy". But that which comes naturally comes easy, and you are the ultimate natural. You admit YOU YOURSELF ARE BAD, AND AS SUCH I CAN DISREGARD EVERYTHING YOU SAY BY YOUR OWN RULES HAHAHHAHA.

>>13102816
>>13102845
>>13102855
>>13102861
>>13102892
Video enim omnia vos Wheelock lectitavistis

>>13102916
What is your condition called ?

>>13102919
>erravi
>>*omnes
use me pudet

>>13102545
Herodotus is comfy af. Xenophon is too (his dialogues and Anabasis moreso than the Hellenica)

>>13101597
I tried reading the life of Augustus and, yeah, it's page after page of portents predicting his birth or whatever. I couldn't read it so I dropped it. I'll probably try to pick up again sometime because I think the life of Nero or Caligula would actually be entertaining with all the fucked up degenerate shit they did, since I heard it all actually comes from Suetonius.