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Topic: Ancient Greek/Roman Literature & Sources Posted: 02-Nov-2006 at 05:56 |
Actually, I was reading an old BBC history the other day and came across a very interesting article- Archaeologists in Pompeii have come across a stack of preserved scrolls that (apparently) contain works from Livy, Virgil, Ovid, Tacitus and Ovid. They cannot look at these scrolls, though obviously until they have the neccesary machinery they cannot look at the scrolls and this machinery costs a vast amount of money. I believe that there is a fund. I read this BBC history first about a year and a half ago, and so I don't know of their progress.
...Interesting story though!
...Also, what do you mean "Burnt the books?"
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Posted: 09-Nov-2006 at 16:47 |
A large collection of early church letters and histories.
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/
Lacus Curtius Latin Texts
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Posted: 10-Nov-2006 at 17:49 |
Excellent sites!
A few More..
http://www.msu.edu/~tyrrell/ - Home page of one of Michigan States Classics Professor's. Good articles, such as one on Caesars Lieutenant, Labienius. Also, links to other good classics websites, such as MIT's Archive.
Thats all for now!
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Posted: 26-Jan-2007 at 13:14 |
I dont have a link, sorry I have only the hard copy, but if you havent read it then its wortha pickup.
The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius.
Philosophy from a very interesting man, really helps you see how a Roman Emperor saw the world around him.
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Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 23:52 |
http://www.uah.edu/student_life/organizations/SAL/texts/index.html This link has tons of primary resources. Examples are, Sallust and his accounts of the Catiline Conspiracy, Jugurthine War and others. Casears Bello Gallico (latin only). Many of Cicero's works. Horace, Livy, Tacitus and Virgil. Enjoy .
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Posted: 14-Jul-2007 at 04:38 |
Hmmm...I'll be keeping some of the links in this thread in my mind... thanks Kilroy
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Posted: 12-Jan-2008 at 21:53 |
Can anyone point me to any source regarding the dialogues of Diogenes and Alexander the Great? Thank you in advance!
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Posted: 13-Jan-2008 at 04:58 |
Originally posted by Heliocles
Can anyone point me to any source regarding the dialogues of Diogenes and Alexander the Great? Thank you in advance!
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I think i may have what you are looking for. Try the link below, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/home.html Plutarch's version of the meeting between the two at Corinth when Alexander made his famous quote "if i were not Alexander, i would be Diogenes." You'll find that story under the very first section (1-24.3) P259. Hope this is it, happy reading. Edit: This particular reading is an English translation.
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Posted: 13-Jan-2008 at 13:21 |
Thank you for your answer Kilroy. Actually i am looking for a work presenting more extended dialogues between Diogenes and Alexander. I think the name of the ancient author is Dion or Dionas or something similar.
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Posted: 13-Jan-2008 at 18:08 |
Originally posted by Heliocles
Thank you for your answer Kilroy. Actually i am looking for a work presenting more extended dialogues between Diogenes and Alexander. I think the name of the ancient author is Dion or Dionas or something similar.
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Hmm. Maybe you can try a section of Diogenes Laertius' ( 200 CE) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. A section which is dedicated to Diogenes of Sinope which i know relates a conversation between Diogenes and Alexander, but again i don't know if it is what you are looking for. This is the only other piece of work that i can think of. http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/ancient/diogeneslaertius-book6-cynics.html#Diogenes Naturally its under the 'Life of Diogenes'.
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Posted: 13-Jan-2008 at 22:37 |
Again,thank you Kil.
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Posted: 21-Feb-2008 at 22:37 |
Aristotle- The Athenian Constitution (350 BCE):
Hope these help :)
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Library of Translated Latin Texts
1. Alexander: book: 3, 5, 6, 9, 10 2. Amianus: book: 15, 17 3. Apulius: Metamorphasis: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Dog1, Dog2, Cupid, DeMundo, DeosSocrates 4. Augustus: Res Getae: 1, 2 5. Avienus: Ora Maritima, Periegesis 6. Calcidius: Timaeus - Calcidius Latin + English + dividers 7. Cattalus: Carmina 8. Cicero: Nature of the Gods 1, 2, 3; Tuscan Disputations: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Timaeus: English, Latin + English 9. Cornarius: Critias - English 10. Dares: Trojan War 11. Ficino: Critias Commentary - English 12. Flacus: Argonautica: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 13. Gellius: Attic Nights: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20 14. Hyginus: Astronomy: 1, 2, 3, 4; Fabulae 15. Isidore: Book: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20; Goth; Opinion: 1, 2, 3, 16. Macrobius: Saturnalia: 1, 2, 3, 4; 5; 6; 7; 17. Ovid: Hercules; Metamorphasis: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; Tristia: 1, 2, 3, 3, 5 18. Virgil: Georgicon: 1, 2, 3, 4; Mopsus
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Posted: 17-Apr-2008 at 20:12 |
At least some of the texts are horribly "translated".
For instance, I looked for 6 verses from Tristia I like and found this "translation":
These likewise, the begotten which with Graia are believed from the city, on behalf of the paternal habitation the Persian trouser covers.
They exercise the trades to the tongue to that associate:
Through the gesture the thing is to be signified to me.
The barbarian this I am, which I am understood not any, and dull ridicule the Latin words Getas;
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Posted: 09-Dec-2008 at 22:06 |
This is a site of ethnic greek religion followers that has a huge collection of hard to find texts. I've found texts that i can't find anywhere else on the net. It is all in Greek but all you have to do is to click on a letter and related titles will appear. It has comedies, drama, poetry, philosophical texts, religious text etc all in original texts! All the texts are not fully uploaded but work is in progress. http://www.toxolyros.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=389&Itemid=848
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Posted: 11-Oct-2009 at 07:44 |
thanks Flipper super site.... there is also http://www.ysee.gr
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Posted: 05-Dec-2009 at 14:39 |
A useful site I have used for reading Apollodorus (lost my copy of the library of mythology so used this site as an emergency) is:
www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html
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Posted: 08-Nov-2010 at 09:11 |
kudos... This thread can give to a brainiac an orgasm.
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Posted: 04-Jan-2011 at 15:52 |
Hello people! is anybody who know something about the secret library of vatican????
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Posted: 28-Jul-2011 at 16:59 |
The secret library of the Vatican probably does not exist! But you must have credentials to access some parts of said library, and be able to ask the exactly correct questions to be able to acces it!
At least that is what I have ascertained.
But the title of this particular thread is;
"Ancient Greek/Roman Literature & Sources"
I would merely ask if any of you can produce the same? That is, without resorting to "anecdotal" sources!
Please see the definition of anecdotal here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Here is but one example of the works not really extant;
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/polycarp_fragments_00_intro.htm
Regards,
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