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ITT : great books before common era

>> No.1657283

Euripides' "Herakles." Strikingly modern in its sensibility.

>> No.1657366
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>> No.1657381

Bhagavad Gita

>> No.1657448

I'm currently learning Plutarch.
The bastard makes my blood boil.

>> No.1657460

Reading my Grandma's ancient copy of Josephus.

"Now, I'll be dead soon. I've had this book valued at three thousand dollars, but I want you to keep it in the family where it will mean much more. I love you."

She died two weeks after that, and I sold it to a wanky art type for eleven thousand. That'll teach you to keep me in the boiler room, grandma!

However, I feel I made a terrible mistake.

>> No.1657485

Satyricon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyricon

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>> No.1657572

>>1657460
I don't believe you.

>> No.1657606

>>1657460
11 grand will buy you a week in college.

You did the right thing.

>> No.1657811

Upanishads

>> No.1657829

>>1657460

hahaha that's pretty cold, bro!

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>> No.1657945

>>1657485
That was written in late 1st century AD.

>> No.1657956

Just because they haven't been mentioned, I'll say the four major epics: The Argonautica, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid

>> No.1657972

>>1657460
>That'll teach you to keep me in the boiler room, grandma!
lol'd hard.

>> No.1657976

>>1657956
>The Argonautica
Since when is that considered major

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>> No.1658026

>>1657976
The way it was explained to me was that it was an anti-hero rewrite of (possibly) one of the first epics ever, and is interlaced with all kinds of cultural significance. I don't pretend to know a lot about it, but the original, and the Apollonius version, were bookends to the Homeric epics, and may have possibly established a lot of the basis of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Personally, I don't know, but it was presented to me as being a pretty big deal in the tradition of classical epics.

>> No.1658032

>>1658026
It probably is really interesting to look back on now, but it certainly hasn't had the lasting influence of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid

>> No.1658048

>>1657565
That shit is AD.
>>1657460
Riveting tale, chap, but that shit is AD.

>> No.1658055

Plato's Symposium
Heraclitus' Fragments.

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>> No.1659260

longinus' on the sublime

>> No.1659310

>>1659260

my bad it's AD probably. still, it's great

>> No.1659346

Herodotus' Histories (Greatest view into the ancient world by an ancient greek himself)
Polybius' Histories (It has the campaigns of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus, among others. Need I say more?)
Xenophon's Anabasis (Excelent book, packed with adventure).