Sunday, June 1, 2008

Latin Literature

And now I've been moving on to Latin and Hellenistic literature. Same purpose as before. Here's the list so far:

plautus
terence
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cicero - the orator and others
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julius caesar
sallust
seutonius
livy
tacitus
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*catullus
virgil
horace
ovid - art of love and erotic poems
ovid - metamorphoses
lucan
statius
persius
juvenal
martial
pliny the elder
quintilian
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[see bertrand russel's history of western philosophy]
*epictetus - the handbook, or the enchiridion
*marcus aurelius - the meditations
*seneca [http://essays.quotidiana.org/seneca/]
zeno and cleanthes: fragments of [http://www.archive.org/details/thefragmentsofze00zenouoft]
[http://www.stoics.com/books.html]

lucretius - on the nature of things
[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=785]

Sextus empiricus [the only skeptic whose works survive] - outlines of pyrrhonism, against the mathmeticians

plotinus - the enneads

*cynicism includes: antisthenes, diogenes, teles [little writing; absorbed by stoicism]
*other stoics include: antiochus, chrysippus, panaetius, posidonius
*for epicureanism, also epicurus
*other skeptics: pyrrho, timon, arcesilaus, carneades, cato, clitomachus, aenesidemus, lucia
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Christian new testament
Apocrypha and other non-canonical texts
dead sea scrolls [pengiun classics]

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