[HN Gopher] Loeb at First Sight: The Classics Come in Red and Gr...
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Loeb at First Sight: The Classics Come in Red and Green (2013)
Author : prismatic
Score : 12 points
Date : 2020-12-11 05:04 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| jihadjihad wrote:
| Somewhat OT: Does anyone have any good recommendations on what to
| read next, chronologically speaking, after finishing Herodotus's
| _Histories_? I had in my mind to try out Thucydides, Xenophon,
| and Plutarch. I 'm interested in learning more about the rise of
| Hellenism, as well as anything related to Ptolemaic Egypt, since
| I know nothing about either. Herodotus has scratched an itch I
| never knew I had wrt. history
| bigdict wrote:
| Chronologically, _The History of the Peloponnesian War_ by
| Thucydides makes most sense. It 's a shift from the Greek-
| Persian conflict to Athens vs. Sparta.
|
| You can read Plutarch's _Lives_ in parallel (no pun intended),
| it 's pure entertainment.
| devindotcom wrote:
| Love Loebs but I'm a little sad I first read Hesiod and a few
| others in these translations first. There's something endearing
| about the rather academic, literal versions but having since read
| others and seen the value of a good translator, I wish I could go
| back and read them for the first time understanding in something
| approaching the fluidity and tone of the originals.
|
| Another thing, you know something is a classic when you can sell
| the same book for a century and still never find a cheap copy
| anywhere! I feel like I never see Loebs below $10 unless they're
| trashed and noted up.
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