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RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors
February 19, 2015 at 10:14 pm
(February 19, 2015 at 10:08 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Pre-socratics: Heraclitus and Thucydides.
Plato: Phaedrus (not a fan, BTW)
Aristotle: poetics and Nicomachean Ethics
Greek: Sophocles, Epicurus
Roman: Tacitus, Seneca
Romans who wrote in Greek: Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus
Cicero: On Old Age

One of the relatively few benefits of a Catholic education: an appreciation for the classics.

Oh yes, Seneca. I love his letters 70 and 77 on suicide. They are the most poetic and beautiful works I have ever read on the subject. I still prefer Hume's essay "Of Suicide," as it is more suitable for a modern audience, and gives more reasoning on the topic, but Seneca is unsurpassed in the beauty of his writing on this, at least among the things I have read. And I think he is pretty much right.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - December 25, 2014 at 4:08 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Minimalist - December 25, 2014 at 4:20 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Alex K - December 25, 2014 at 4:27 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Alex K - December 30, 2014 at 4:17 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Exian - February 17, 2015 at 11:09 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 19, 2015 at 9:12 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Natachan - December 30, 2014 at 4:20 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Minimalist - December 30, 2014 at 4:38 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Alex K - December 30, 2014 at 4:30 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Alex K - December 30, 2014 at 4:42 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Natachan - December 30, 2014 at 4:49 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Minimalist - December 30, 2014 at 4:52 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by abaris - January 4, 2015 at 7:51 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Kulthenius - January 4, 2015 at 5:30 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Minimalist - January 4, 2015 at 12:57 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - January 10, 2015 at 6:01 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by bennyboy - February 8, 2015 at 9:03 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 9, 2015 at 12:06 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - February 8, 2015 at 7:18 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 15, 2015 at 10:43 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by bennyboy - February 15, 2015 at 1:14 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 15, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - February 15, 2015 at 1:50 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 15, 2015 at 2:01 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - February 17, 2015 at 6:38 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Brian37 - February 15, 2015 at 2:10 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 15, 2015 at 2:26 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Brian37 - February 15, 2015 at 4:23 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 15, 2015 at 6:13 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by bennyboy - February 17, 2015 at 7:29 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 17, 2015 at 9:57 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - February 17, 2015 at 10:06 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 17, 2015 at 10:27 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Brian37 - February 18, 2015 at 11:23 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - February 19, 2015 at 9:41 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 19, 2015 at 9:50 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - February 19, 2015 at 10:05 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 19, 2015 at 10:13 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Rev. Rye - February 19, 2015 at 10:08 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - February 19, 2015 at 10:14 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Brian37 - February 20, 2015 at 7:48 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 20, 2015 at 6:20 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 20, 2015 at 8:00 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Brian37 - February 21, 2015 at 9:01 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - February 22, 2015 at 3:01 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by bennyboy - February 22, 2015 at 6:43 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Cato - February 21, 2015 at 12:14 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Brian37 - February 21, 2015 at 12:28 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - February 21, 2015 at 1:54 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Brian37 - February 21, 2015 at 2:30 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - March 26, 2015 at 3:18 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - March 26, 2015 at 4:50 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - March 26, 2015 at 5:38 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pizza - March 26, 2015 at 8:34 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - March 31, 2015 at 10:21 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pizza - April 1, 2015 at 7:19 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - April 25, 2015 at 4:58 am
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Rev. Rye - April 26, 2015 at 12:19 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - April 26, 2015 at 4:08 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by bennyboy - April 26, 2015 at 5:01 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - April 26, 2015 at 5:33 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Rev. Rye - April 26, 2015 at 11:01 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Pyrrho - April 25, 2015 at 1:28 pm
RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors - by Mudhammam - April 25, 2015 at 5:15 pm

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