My Classical Literature Collection | Bookshelf Tour

because to be honest it isn't the best piece of ancient literature I wouldn't particularly recommend it for a recreation or meeting

I bought my undergraduate dissertation on the ancient Greek novel which is a collection of five pieces of ancient Greek literature that were written in prose and this is one of those they're also romance novels and I ended up reading them all although I didn't focus my entire dissertation on all of them but because of that I want in addition to all of them originally that's why I bought them and this one is quite young because I've read it quite often and I read it since then in terms of my research into like the treatment of wear and violence towards women which is what I specialize in no

I had a beautiful pita tabbed to high heavens highlighted in addition and that's the way I like them and it had on my notes and my thoughts in it on something that is one of my favorite pieces of ancient Greek literature I recommend this all the time if you want somewhere to start with the ingenue literature this is the book you should read

it's relevant to my studies and it's very interesting so like this

well we don't have one last penguin classic in those more modern editions which is very loose George X again maybe I just do like Fargo because this is kind of boring it's about farming that's actually like a metaphor for Roman life and other aspects but it reads like it's about farming stuff for me

similarly the gold whooshes happily yes orbits Harris which is actually Ovid writing letters from the perspective of women in ancient Greek mythology to the mainly were in love with I am I think that's quite an interesting one

we then have Herodotus's histories so Herodotus was somebody who don't ancient Greek history particularly the ancient Greeks ongoing relationship with the parish ends and this is when I studied a lot and continue to use so there's a lot of Thompson there are certain books I just feel like I have never ceased to find uses for and Herodotus is one of them no matter what I'm studying as long as it's about ancient Greece and it seems to end up being useful

I am then we've got theocritus as it is which are an ancient Greek poems really love this collection it's more bucolic and less like epic and dramatic and I really like that it's sort of a different period in ancient Greek literature

we have create ideas one in three ideas of 23 this one I'm not even sure if you can see maybe that helps can you read that there is Senecas on the shortness of life so that she's some Senecas work and then we also have a Plato's symposium which is just our work by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato on the topic of love I think this is a really interesting little bit

then my favorite piece of ancient Latin literature which is the tune Petronius is a Satyricon and this is a comedic novel written by a latin writer and it's hilarious

don't have Virgil's Aeneid which is my copy of the ancient Roman epic poem of the hero Aeneas and I do not particularly like this book I studied it during my undergrad and honestly I didn't really enjoy it

then lastly we have the fall of Troy by Quintus smyrna yes which is one that I bought again because this was the only really easily accessible translation of the epic which is the sort of follow-up to the events of the Iliad it's written by a different author than Homer who really leage but it is the events following the Iliad in which we see like the Trojan horse for example

this is my copy of the Iliad by Homer this is the translation I studied at University I'm highly recommend it's by Richmond Lattimore so if you're looking for a good translation of Iliad this is a good one to go with

this is the translation I recommend you read at the Odyssey this is the hardback base a paperback now and it is the first translation of the Odyssey to be translated by a woman in English to be published in Britain and it's brilliant it's brilliant for so many reasons not least the introduction which gives you such an interesting look into the history of translating into work and the biases within translation and it's so good honestly it makes a really important changes to traditional translations

Suetonius the twelve Caesars who is that favorite woman historian that I mentioned earlier not because he's the most vital source although he's very good source for ancient Emperor's the early ancient Roman emperors he is just kinda hilarious this is like being a gossip magazine and I always enjoy getting study this a university

the library of Greek mythology by a clitoris which is such an excellent go to if you're trying to get into Greek mythology because it is basically just a collection of loads of different Greek myths in one place collected together by an author who's actually known as pseudo-apollodorus because we don't know their real identity

I love this boot but this is one of my favorite pieces of each image I studied this in university both of my undergraduate at my masters is a work of epicurean philosophy I find myself very drawn in part to epicurean philosophy I just think it's very interesting