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What Roman lit do you guys recommend besides Plutarch?

https://www.ancient.eu/Roman_Literature/

>> No.17072973
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>>17072891
Herodotus and Suetonius

>> No.17073020

>>17072891
Virgil (All works i e Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid in that order). Reading him will greatly inform your reading of Dante Alighieri, considering that 1)Virgil guides Dante in the Inferno 2)Dante wrote his own Eclogues
Statius
Cicero, especially De Officiis, De Amicitia, and De Senectute
Caesar, if you're interested in his history and wars
Livy, if you're interested in foundational myth of Rome and Roman history, more generally
Horace has some nice poetry about many different things, though I only read them in Latin, so I don't know if you would appreciate them through translation
Tacitus' Germania, if you're interested in reading about the Germans through a Roman perspective

>> No.17073021

>>17072891
The Satyricon. Impossible to disappoint.

>> No.17073036

the stoics (cicero, seneca, marcus aurelius)

>> No.17073053

>>17072891
Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria

>> No.17073072

>>17072891
The Satyricon is amazing, as >>17073021 said. But my favorite Roman is Horace. Nothing beats his Odes. Lucretius is great too, if you're interested in Epicureanism.

>>17072973
Herodotus was Greek.

>> No.17073077

>>17073036
epictetus

>> No.17073079

Vera Historia is a personal favorite of mine. Up there with the Satyricon. There's an argument to be made that Vera Historia is the first ever science fiction book, and some of the gags in there inform hundreds of years of travelogues and adventure fiction, like Gulliver's Travels, the Munchausen books, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Pinnochio, etc.
I don't think it gets read nearly enough, so I'm taking my chance and teaching it next semester.

>> No.17073085

>>17073079
I realized as I posted this that I got deked out by the Herodotus poster. The Latin translation is good but it was originally written in Greek.

>> No.17073092

>>17073036
Nah

>> No.17073127

OP if you buy On The Nature of Things don't get the Penguin edition since the introduction is by the translator (female) and she spends a decent portion of it talking about how she has a vagina and how women matter and how desu she could've done a better job with the translation but got lazy.

>> No.17073285

>>17072891
>Roman literature
>Plutarch
Plutarch wrote in Greek and was pat of the Hellenizing literary movement known as the Second Sophistic. Id est non Romanus erat.

Read Tacitus. The Histories and the Annals are his best works. Start with the Annals.

>> No.17073364

>>17072891
Start with Livy if you haven't read The Aeneid

>> No.17073430

>>17073127
>she could've done a better job with the translation but got lazy
Sounds about right.

>> No.17073445

>>17073072
>Herodotus was Greek
yeah but he's still worth reading

>> No.17073459

>>17072891
I've been reading both volumes this past year. This shit is gold

>> No.17074877

>>17072891
Plutarch was Greek

>> No.17074894

>>17073020
>Tacitus' Germania, if you're interested in reading about the Germans through a Roman perspective
This, and the Agricola for Britain.

>> No.17074941

>>17072891
Virgil's Georgics and the Eneid
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Horace's Odes
Apuleius' Golden Ass
Longus' Daphnis and Chloe

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>>17073021
>>17073072
is it gay?