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Favorite works by Romans?

>> No.21470168

>>21470153
The aquaduct.

>> No.21470184

>>21470153
Meditations is a glorified self help book

The civil wars by appian is fantastic though.

>> No.21470277

>>21470184
>appian
he is a greek

>> No.21470293

>>21470277
Don't care, he wrote one of the best histories of rome.

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>> No.21470309

>>21470297
Are you...male? Female? What are you?

>> No.21470388

>>21470153
Ovid is the best Roman long-form poet. Catullus the best short-form poet.

>> No.21470911

I'm reading Gallic war and I lost my shit when Titus pollo and Lucius Verinus got mentioned.i thought the BBC just made those two niggas up, didn't realize they actually had a little scene in Caesar's own god damn book. Fuck I love Rome

>> No.21470915

>>21470153
Maurice's Strategikon and Anna Komnene's Alexiad

>> No.21470917

>>21470309
trans

>> No.21471193

>>21470917
post hole please?

>> No.21471770

>>21470917
trannyism is modern world

>> No.21471779

>>21470917
this faggot isn't me

>>21470309
>>21471193
>>21471770
that's my female gf reading it.

>> No.21471785

Love Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic Wars. He's a wily fucker and a goated gloater.

>> No.21472862

Seneca : The Shortness of Life

>> No.21472872

>>21470153
Justinian's codification of Roman law, unironically.

>> No.21472888

>>21470153
Livy Ab Urbe

>> No.21472891

>>21470168
fpbp

>> No.21472892

>>21470153
destruction of carthage
those baby fuckers deserved it

>> No.21473418

>>21470153

Petronius' Satyricon

>> No.21473476

For me, it's Epistula Ad Romanos by Paulus in the original Latin.

>> No.21473895

Lucretius of course.
Horace was also good, but I do need to delve back into Ovid