Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 7:42 pmI, upon reading some of the works of Plutarch, have been thinking.
Who is YOUR favourite Greco-Roman writer of the ancient world?
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 7:42 pmWho is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 4:31 pmSt. agrerio Augustus Caesar the 3rd the white. The 5th.
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 10:15 pmI always liked Cicero.
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 10:57 pmTo read Suetonius, as a person Cicero
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 3:05 pmIf I were forced at gunpoint to pick just one it would be Virgil. The Aeneid is to me a marvel. There is one scene in particular that always stuns me. It is when Aeneas enters Carthage and sees a mural depicting the Trojan war. He is filled with sorrow as he sees people he knew depicted on the wall.
But what really grabs me is when he sees himself depicted in the mural. I have always thought that was a brilliant scene. It strikes me as a very modern moment, a self-aware moment. Aeneas understands that he is becoming a legend even as he stands in the temple observing the mural.
I prefer John Dryden's translation over the others I have read. It feels remarkably natural to me, not stilted or over-reverent as so many translations of ancient literature can be. There are passages in his translation that, in my opinion, work as poetry in their own right as well as being a very readable translation.
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 4:12 pmJulius Caesar: "Commentarii de Bello Gallico"
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 10:29 amI-I.. I dont... Know? 
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 2:59 pmMaybe you love them all, good sir/ma'am??
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 3:29 pmMore likely he doesn't love any. The vast majority of people don't read ancient writers.
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 6:05 pmFair enough xD
I, I have most of the Loeb Classical Library in PDF format 
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 11:05 pmUnless I'm forgetting anything, and not counting the little bits of philosophy I read at university, the only classical text I've read is the Odyssey. So I suppose I have to say Homer is my favourite, if only by default.
I have both the Iliad and the Aeneid sat on my bookshelf though, so one day I will expand my horizons. I read a really fascinating book about the Persian War last year too, so at some point I'd really like to read Herodotus' Histories.
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 4:54 pmOhh... nice! I must read the Odyssey at some point
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 12:23 pmSure, let's go with that.
Who is your favourite Ancient Greco-Roman Writer?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 3:25 pmxD Fair enough xD