/lit/ - Literature

Is there anything I should read in the next four days to prepare me for this?

Is there such a thing as the Fool's Journey? Because I'm definitely not a hero.

>>17968401
The Epicurean school had a large presence in the region. Lucretius, one of the earliest great Roman poets, was an Epicurean.
>On The Nature of Things
Seneca was a Roman Stoic, who worked for Nero. If you're into literature Seneca and Lucretius are both very influential in the arts, and Seneca wrote a number of plays
>Seneca: Moral and Political Essays
>Seneca: Phaedra and Other Plays
Of course there's Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, two very different people that were both very into stoicism.
>The Discourses of Epictetus: The Handbook, Fragments
>Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Any list about Roman authors would be incomplete without mentioning Cicero. Anyone that can out argue Julius Caesar in court demands our attention. As one Pompeiian tagger wrote: "You will like Cicero, or you will be whipped"
>On moral duties, tusculan disputations, on old age, scipio's dream, on the character of the orator, Against cataline 1 & 4, For Caelius, Second Phillipic, and, Letters.
>or just grab a Latin textbook. You might as well learn it now
On the history side of things, you should check out Plutarch and Tacitus
>Plutarch: Parallel Lives
>Tacitus: Annals, Histories

I just want to study ancient philosophy. What does ancient philosophy have to do with American identity politics?

>>15640987

These are livres à feuilleter, so to speak. You dip into them from time to time for pleasure and edification. Also, they'll be worth their weight in gold once the reversion to barbarism reaches its climax.