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Classics books Anonymous Wed Jul 22 19:37:19 2020 No.15932590 [Reply] [Original]

I was going to ask this on /his/, but that entire board seems autistic.
Recommend me some books to see if I would be interested enough in classics to pursue it as a hobby.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 19:44:11 2020 No.15932634 >>15932590 Stop trying to escape from death. Life is meaningless and you know this. Picking up a hobby won't save you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 19:53:01 2020 No.15932686 >>15932634 Then why haven't you killed yourself?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:00:37 2020 No.15932719 >>15932686 I'd rather just suffer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:01:48 2020 No.15932724 >>15932634 >Picking up a hobby won't save you. But repenting of your sins and accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior will

>>	Old Man Wed Jul 22 20:03:27 2020 No.15932731 >>15932634 Look at life as a war, living as a duty. Live to fight your enemies, no matter how ineffectual your fighting may be

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:04:13 2020 No.15932735 >>15932634 low t

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:05:06 2020 No.15932738 >>15932719 >>15932724 >>15932731 You faggots make your own thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:26:00 2020 No.15932835 Bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:27:26 2020 No.15932849 File: 1.38 MB, 3672x3024, greeks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15932590 Start with the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:34:25 2020 No.15932886 >>15932849 I guess I should have been more specific. I was thinking about history and culture books, not poems and plays.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:36:02 2020 No.15932893 >>15932886 The Histories by Herodotus History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The Histories by Polybius

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:37:45 2020 No.15932903 >>15932886 If you don't enjoy the Iliad you're not going to enjoy the classics

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:37:58 2020 No.15932904 >>15932886 Oxford's The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists Mythology by Edith Hamilton Histories of Alexander the Great by Quintus Curtius Rufus

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:40:19 2020 No.15932921 >>15932903 I did enjoy it, I was just unclear in the OP.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:41:47 2020 No.15932931 >>15932886 The Conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar The Aeneid by Virgil The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius The Annals by Tacitus The Anabasis by Xenophon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:46:35 2020 No.15932966 >>15932886 The Judean War by Josephus The Histories by Tacitus History of Rome by Cassius Dio

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:47:36 2020 No.15932979 >>15932886 Also, culture books are the poems and plays. Those reflect the culture of the classical age.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:50:05 2020 No.15932995 Lift books read weights bro. Sinple really

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:50:16 2020 No.15932996 >>15932886 If you're interested in the language of the ancient Greeks, then History of Ancient Greek From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity is a good pick

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