My resources for antiquity
Greek and Roman
Homer - probably other translations would be good not only here but all across the board
Heraclitus
Diogenes
Epicurus
Plato
Aristotle
Plotinus
Sappho
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Herodotus
Thucydides
Tacitus
Lucian
Petronius
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
(glaring lacks in my resources are Virgil, Ovid, and so on)
the early church fathers - namely Tertullian and Saint Augustine, and many more ... the eBook i got is so large my kindle often has to restart when i open it, and won't open on the kindle cloud, i guess i'd need a kindle app, but as things are i don't have the means for that. :(
Gibbon's The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, written in the 18th century is however of wondrous use, i've got it on audible and on a cheap eBook
Holderlin was a German poet who was a guy who was OBSESSED with antiquity & mythology, so deserves mention here
Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and other works of his, he was keen on Hellenic times
and Robert Graves' The Greek Myths .... yep i think this covers most of what i got here, not too bad, could use some secondary works of studies, i'm not aiming to learn the Greek or Roman languages however, i just like to get the gist, and have enough fodder to dream about how it was back then, when the gods were all the rage. Other venues would be the Judaic, Scandinavian (Norse), Celtic, and anything smacking of the Pagan, and yes, i need to get into The Gilgamesh Epic which goes WAY WAY back over a millennia before Homer if i'm not mistaken.
Homer - probably other translations would be good not only here but all across the board
Heraclitus
Diogenes
Epicurus
Plato
Aristotle
Plotinus
Sappho
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Herodotus
Thucydides
Tacitus
Lucian
Petronius
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
(glaring lacks in my resources are Virgil, Ovid, and so on)
the early church fathers - namely Tertullian and Saint Augustine, and many more ... the eBook i got is so large my kindle often has to restart when i open it, and won't open on the kindle cloud, i guess i'd need a kindle app, but as things are i don't have the means for that. :(
Gibbon's The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, written in the 18th century is however of wondrous use, i've got it on audible and on a cheap eBook
Holderlin was a German poet who was a guy who was OBSESSED with antiquity & mythology, so deserves mention here
Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and other works of his, he was keen on Hellenic times
and Robert Graves' The Greek Myths .... yep i think this covers most of what i got here, not too bad, could use some secondary works of studies, i'm not aiming to learn the Greek or Roman languages however, i just like to get the gist, and have enough fodder to dream about how it was back then, when the gods were all the rage. Other venues would be the Judaic, Scandinavian (Norse), Celtic, and anything smacking of the Pagan, and yes, i need to get into The Gilgamesh Epic which goes WAY WAY back over a millennia before Homer if i'm not mistaken.
