Classics...

[Orsorum]

Which ones to read? I'm looking for Greco-Roman texts, some later - anything that has contributed to the foundation of western civilization.

So far:

The Republic (and a couple other works), Plato
The Laws, Plato
The Metaphysics, Aristotle
On the Nature of Things, Lucretius
History of the Peloponnesian Wars, Thucydides
The Works and Days, Hesiod
The Oresteia, Aeschylus
Sophocles' four tragedies (Antigone, Oedipus, Elektra, Philoctetes)
The Iliad, The Odyssey, Homer
Some random quotations from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus

There are other books I want to read, but I've come to the understanding that most of what I'm going to read that's been written recently (on any sort of western history or sociology) will have some basis in the texts above.

Any other suggestions?

 

[tweakmm]

The Prince by Machiaveli

 

[thawolfman]

You read this stuff for reasons other than school? :Q

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: thawolfman
You read this stuff for reasons other than school? :Q

I love Plato... I read the Marcus Aurelius/Epictetes/Apology (Plato) when I was 10, I think. It's interesting stuff.

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: Zakath15

Originally posted by: thawolfman
You read this stuff for reasons other than school? :Q

I love Plato... I read the Marcus Aurelius/Epictetes/Apology (Plato) when I was 10, I think. It's interesting stuff.

I see. Good sh!t then

 

[Colt45]

Mein Kampf

 

[frizzlefry]

Originally posted by: Colt45
Mein Kampf

This was friggin amazing. I was just in awe. Genius, puer genius.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Colt45
Mein Kampf

Actually... no, don't have a copy yet. It's on my list. I have a copy of the Communist Manifesto lying around here somewhere.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: Zakath15

Originally posted by: Colt45
Mein Kampf

Actually... no, don't have a copy yet. It's on my list. I have a copy of the Communist Manifesto lying around here somewhere.

I originally said it as a joke.. ive never read it eithet, but maybe I will sometime.

funny thing was I was going to say the communist manifesto as well..

weird! :Q

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Colt45

Originally posted by: Zakath15

Originally posted by: Colt45
Mein Kampf

Actually... no, don't have a copy yet. It's on my list. I have a copy of the Communist Manifesto lying around here somewhere.

I originally said it as a joke.. ive never read it eithet, but maybe I will sometime.

funny thing was I was going to say the communist manifesto as well..

weird! :Q

:Q

*looks behind shoulder...*

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
The Prince by Machiaveli

okay... not really greco-roman, but important as well.

 

[Kadarin]

What about Herodotus?

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: tweakmm
The Prince by Machiaveli

okay... not really greco-roman, but important as well.

Haha, I'm planning to move on up in time periods.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
What about Herodotus?

Thank you! I knew I was forgetting someone...

He wrote The Histories; was The Persian Wars included in that?

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: tweakmm
The Prince by Machiaveli

okay... not really greco-roman, but important as well.

I'm looking for Greco-Roman texts, some later - anything that has contributed to the foundation of western civilization.

 

[Orsorum]

And pre-Greco-Roman texts (although there really aren't any, are there?)

 

[oLLie]

Da bibo

 

[Orsorum]

Bump.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Zakath15
And pre-Greco-Roman texts (although there really aren't any, are there?)

The Bible has probably affected western civilization more than any other book.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Zakath15
And pre-Greco-Roman texts (although there really aren't any, are there?)

The Bible has probably affected western civilization more than any other book.

Which part? OT or NT?

Both were based on principles founded in other religions and other texts.

 

[xuanman]

Vergil's Aeneid
Dante's Inferno
Aeschylus
Homer
Sophocles
Euripedes
Thucydides
Aristophanes

Have fun!

 

[Orsorum]

Virgil, Aristophanes, Euripedes.

Cool, thanks!

 

[Orsorum]

Which plays of Euripedes'?

 

[bizmark]

Aristotle - Politics, Nichomachean Ethics, Poetics, Posterior Analytics
Julius Caesar - Conquest of the Gauls
Livy - History of Rome
Plutarch - Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
Augustine - Confessions, City of God

 

[Orsorum]

Cool, thanks.