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Roman literature Anonymous Tue Mar 7 05:08:19 2017 No.9201982 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best literature and best philosophy from the Roman Empire /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 06:08:01 2017 No.9202085 From the Empire period Petronius, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca (and Tacitus if you're into history). Also, of course, the triad Virgil-Horace-Ovid

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 09:08:09 2017 No.9202541 File: 40 KB, 400x600, 89795425459-0=.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9201982 His diary desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 09:15:03 2017 No.9202564 >>9202541 Is that Marcus Aurelius?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 10:10:23 2017 No.9202679 File: 1.05 MB, 1500x1200, mammal.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9202085 fpbp >>9201982 Based thread anon. I also humbly recommend the histories of Cassius Dio, Livy, Josephus, and the poetry of Statius and Lucan.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 10:17:55 2017 No.9202695 Also catallus, suetonius, plautus and Terrence

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 10:21:31 2017 No.9202700 >>9202695 They're all from the Republic period, except Svetonius

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 10:24:42 2017 No.9202706 >>9201982 Plutarch's Lives, Dryden Translation, followed closely by Livy's Founding of the City