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i love purgatory and inferno(haven't finished paradise yet) so what other classical literature would i be interested in

>> No.2647210

If you like the dramatic renderings of historical figures, maybe a history with a personal and legendary bent? Could try Herodotus.

>> No.2647212

>>2647210
This. I love Herodotus.

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The Odyssey and the Iliad - Homer
Aeneid - Virgil (Dante's guide)
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Paradise Lost - Milton
Ulysses - Tennyson
Moby Dick - Melville

>> No.2647222

>>2647215

This. Also, maybe the Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, and theres a few editions of the Nibelungenlied that attempt to keep/approximate the meter of the original medieval German, which makes it more of a traditional "Epic" than the more adulterated translations - assuming you can't be bothered to man up and learn German.

>> No.2647235

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

Calvino turn to prose that shit and its just antipleb.

>> No.2647242

>>2647222
Faerie Queene. Yes.

Teach yourself Middle English and read Chaucer (it isn't difficult at all). Translations from Middle English are for pussies.

And Catullus. Can't go wrong there.