Interesting library - very similar to mine... :)

posted by Romanus at 4:34 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2007

Well, it's not that I want a textbook, but I am looking for books to recomend to my professor for next semester. He used Chronicle OTRR this semester and most of us found it a bit lacking and a bit to splashy, biographical and anecdotal without enough narrative. I think this book should complement it nicely.

posted by gradvmedusa at 5:20 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2007

I just picked up http://www.librarything.com/work/2857630... Klaus Bringmann's History of the Roman Republic. It's quite dense but also very comprehensive. The prose is a little dry, probably because it's a translation from German. However, as a textbook for the period I was talking about I think it works.

posted by gradvmedusa at 4:49 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2007

I would be most appreciative, thank you.

posted by gradvmedusa at 11:59 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2007

Yeah I have read that book, I was looking for something a bit more .... scholarly perhaps or at least more in depth and narrative.

posted by gradvmedusa at 7:41 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2007

Hey, I was wondering if you had any recomendations for a book which covers the mid-republic, basically from the 1st punic War to the death of Gaius Gracchi?

posted by gradvmedusa at 12:04 am (EST) on Apr 1, 2007

How do you find the Barrington Atlas? I have only had a chance to look at it in the Uni libary, I have considered getting it but I'm not sure if it's worth its size and price.

posted by gradvmedusa at 12:23 am (EST) on Mar 26, 2007

Hmm . . .like a conworld, in some ways, then? I've started a constructed languages group; a lot of conlangers, I've noticed, have some entity like a micronation in mind as they build their languages. Do you have a conlang? Can I join your group?

posted by kcasada at 3:55 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2007

What is a micronation?

posted by kcasada at 3:10 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2007

Your collection makes me weep with envy... :)

posted by gradvmedusa at 6:53 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2007

Hi. thanks for the compliment. What a great Roman collection here, I admit I looked it over before, but I'm a bit shy about commenting sometimes. I haven't read the Cicero biography, I will probably wait a while, I translated "Laws" and "de Dome Sua" a few times each this summer, as well as a bit of "On Divination," because of an NEH seminar. It was great, but just about everyone ended up angry at Cicero by the end of it. That sentiment took me back to my senior year in college, where the last Latin course available was Ciceronian Philosophy with one very serious latinist. I toughed it out, but the other Classical Languages majors changed over to Classical Civ to avoid taking that one.

posted by Lucretius at 3:39 am (EST) on Feb 4, 2006