/lit/ - Literature

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Hey /lit/. Could you recommend me some books, plays or whatnot written in the era of the Roman Republic? There's a lot written in ancient Greece, in the Roman Empire and a lot of modern books about the Roman Republic, but whenever I look for things written in the republic I always come up empty. I realize that libraries burn, and a lot is lost over time, but surely one of the world's most influential superpowers at the time must have left some written material?

>We think of memory feats which are recorded of the ancients, of how the elder Seneca, a teacher of rhetoric, could repeat two thousand names in the order in which they had been given; and when a class of two hundred students or more spoke each in turn a line of poetry, he could recite all the lines in reverse order, beginning from the last one said and going right back to the first. Or we remember that Augustine, also trained as a teacher of rhetoric, tells of a friend called Simplicius who could recite Virgil backwards.