RE: Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors
April 25, 2015 at 4:58 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 4:58 am by Mudhammam.)
Okay, so I just finished reading Aristotle's Basic Works and beginning tomorrow I am on to W. J. Oates' The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers, thanks to Pyrrho's suggestion. After that I'm taking a short break from my historical survey (centered around philosophy but allowing myself to indulge in important histories and poetries of the relevant times as well). Here is what I have completed thus far, as well as my plan, for which more suggestions are welcome:
Read (in order, though not necessarily consecutively)
B. Russell - A History of Western Philosophy (ongoing, per era)
Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey
Kirk, Raven, and Schofield - The Presocratic Philosophers
J. Pritchard - Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament
Herodotus - The History
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
Plato - Complete Works
F. Nietzsche - Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
Aristophanes - Clouds, Wasps, and Peace
Xenophon - Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Symposium, and Apology
Aristotle - Basic Works (seven complete works, seven partial)
To Read (not listed in a particular order, which I will go through chronologically)
Cicero - Would prefer to read his letters, not so much his treatise on rhetoric. What's "An Old Age," as Rev. Rye suggested, about? What's a good translation (for either/both)?
Pliny the Elder - Natural History (translation?)
Ovid - Metamorphoses (trans?)
Catullus - Natachan said he was fun. What specifically?
Philo - What's his main work? And translation? I'm keen to see what the philosophy of a first-century Jewish Platonist looked like.
Diogenes Laërtius - Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (trans?)
Seneca - I'm on the fence. I don't want to get too distracted by non-philosophers during this run I'm on. What would you recommend, specifically? And trans?
Plutarch - I feel the same way as I do about Seneca
Clement of Alexandria - Any recommendations?
Augustine - Confessions and City of God (trans?)
(Already own and plan to read Virgil's Aeneid and Gibbon's Rise and Fall... Vol 1)
Thanks for all of the help thus far guys and gals!
Read (in order, though not necessarily consecutively)
B. Russell - A History of Western Philosophy (ongoing, per era)
Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey
Kirk, Raven, and Schofield - The Presocratic Philosophers
J. Pritchard - Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament
Herodotus - The History
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
Plato - Complete Works
F. Nietzsche - Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
Aristophanes - Clouds, Wasps, and Peace
Xenophon - Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Symposium, and Apology
Aristotle - Basic Works (seven complete works, seven partial)
To Read (not listed in a particular order, which I will go through chronologically)
Cicero - Would prefer to read his letters, not so much his treatise on rhetoric. What's "An Old Age," as Rev. Rye suggested, about? What's a good translation (for either/both)?
Pliny the Elder - Natural History (translation?)
Ovid - Metamorphoses (trans?)
Catullus - Natachan said he was fun. What specifically?
Philo - What's his main work? And translation? I'm keen to see what the philosophy of a first-century Jewish Platonist looked like.
Diogenes Laërtius - Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (trans?)
Seneca - I'm on the fence. I don't want to get too distracted by non-philosophers during this run I'm on. What would you recommend, specifically? And trans?
Plutarch - I feel the same way as I do about Seneca
Clement of Alexandria - Any recommendations?
Augustine - Confessions and City of God (trans?)
(Already own and plan to read Virgil's Aeneid and Gibbon's Rise and Fall... Vol 1)
Thanks for all of the help thus far guys and gals!
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