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This is easily the best recommendation you guys have ever given me and I'm burning through it, thank you. I'm going to need something else to read soon. Can any of you recommend anything as good, nearly as good or better than this? It doesn't have to be ancient Greek literature.

>> No.14880516

If you want more history, try Livy or Plutarch. Roman history is fun, too.

>> No.14880523

>>14880516
>try Livy or Plutarch
Will do. I'm grateful for all recommendations. Thank you.

>> No.14880530

>>14880509
There's a chart with other books like this, think it is on the wiki.

>> No.14880535

Thucydides, Tacitus, Plutarch, Edward Gibbon, Shelby Foote, Toynbee

>> No.14880557

>>14880530
>think it is on the wiki.
I'm sorry.
>>14880535
Thank you so much. Any particular books from them that you'd especially recommend?

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>>14880557
Thucydides' history of the Peloponesian war. Basically, in order you got
Herodotus > Thucydides > Xenophon
Theres another chart with Xenophon's books but I cant remember them, I think Hellenica is the history one and Anabaesis is the poem haven't read them

>> No.14880599

>>14880571
You and your chart have been very helpful. Thank you. Any other recommendations are very welcome.

>> No.14880613

>>14880557
>Any particular books from them that you'd especially recommend?
>Thucydides Pelopennisian War
>Tacitus Histories and Annals
>Plutarch Lives
>Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of Roman Empire
>Shelby Foote Civil War
>Arnold J. Toynbee A Study of History
>Winston Churchill The Second World War

>> No.14880626

>>14880613
You're a great person and I wish I could reciprocate your kindness, but I don't know how to.

>> No.14880708

Read Xenophon's Anabasis and Cyropaedia, they're great and often forgotten.

>> No.14880718

Look up the landmark editions of these histories, they’ve only made 5 but they’re incredibly useful, full of maps and additional information and shit.

Alexander’s campaigns by Arrian doesn’t get recommended enough around here. Shame his sequel detailing the wars over Alexander’s empire and eventual setting of the stage for Rome has been lost to time.

>> No.14880867

>>14880708
>>14880718
>Anabasis is the most famous book of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon
Great stuff, anons. Thank you.

>> No.14881827

Suetonius Twelve Caesars. Spicy and quite funny, but also grotesque.

>> No.14881890

Any recommend version of the histories?

>> No.14881948

>>14881890
Landmark for sure. Like another Anon said, it has great footnotes, maps, pictures, and other details.

>> No.14881980

>>14881948
Thanks

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>>14880509
whatever you do do not buy this edition
trust me

>> No.14882309

My boy Plutarch

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>>14880718
Seconded. The Landmark Ancient Histories kick ass. Also forthcoming:
The Landmark Polybius: The Federation and Conquest of the Greek States (2021?)
The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis.