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Library1,555 books — see library

Reviews21 reviews — see reviews

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Tagsenglish (432), ad.20 (348), history (104), greek (52), ad.19 (46), Rome (44), lexicon (43), drama (42), tr.english (40), everyman (37) — see all tags

GroupsAlexander the Great, Ancient History, Baker Street and Beyond, Bellow, Byzantinistik, Classically Liberal, Everyman's Library, Hellas, Homer, the Trojan war, and pre-classical Greece, Lingua Latina — show all groups , Mark Twain, The Diogenes Club, The Globe, the Spurious Diphthongs, The Turk's Head, Wir Philologen

Favorite authorsJacques Barzun, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gilbert Highet, Christopher Hitchens, Homer, A. E. Housman, Samuel Johnson, Richmond Lattimore, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Arnaldo Momigliano, V.S. Naipaul, Nicander of Colophon, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Dos Passos, Plato, Steven Runciman, Carl Sagan, John Edwin Sandys, William Shakespeare, Paul Theroux, Mark Twain, Virgil (Shared favorites)

About me I'm a dilettante and teacher of Latin with special interests in Byzantine History, classical scholarship, and indie rock. I'm an atheist, but not in a weirdly religious way. If all else were lost and I could read just one author it would be Mark Twain. All those Greek paradigms and for nothing.

About my library It's too big. What was I thinking?

On my tagging system, it's imperfect and imperfectly applied, but goes something like this. There are five categories entered in this sequence (though not all are required):

(1) century (with ranges if applicable, e.g., bc.07-15, ad.01-21).

BC is counterintuitively given from most recent to oldest for sorting purposes.

(2) language

greek = 'greek work in the original language' ;
or.greek tr.english = 'originally Greek, translated into English ;
greek tr.english = 'bilingual edition: Greek w/ English transl.

(This allows for marking multingual texts as well as anthologies translated from more than one language, e.g., english or.greek, or.latin, or.german, or.french, tr.english = 'English originals with English translations of works originally written in Greek, Latin, German, and French').

If a language is the subject of a book (monograph, grammar, lexicon), the language given is that of the treatment (i.e., that of the text or the target audience) and the subject language is listed afterward with the preposition 'on.'

Thus, the Oxford Latin Dictionary would be tagged
ad.20, english, lexicon, on latin

(3) genre / subject / school. Different kinds of works seem to me logically classed in different ways. One work is defined by genre (lyric), another by its theme (e.g., academic studies, which aren't a genre in the same sense), others by schools or movements (presocratics, existentialism), and others by combinations (epic, achilles).

(4) era / style. Sometimes the era and the style of the work are significant or helpful for classification. For example, I think it's useful to label Archilochus 'archaic,' Apollonius 'hellenistic,' Roger Ascham 'tudor,' and George Grote 'victorian,' but Empedocles 'verse,' Plato 'dialogue,' and some of Nietzsche's work 'aphorism.'

(5) series, if applicable. (e.g., Everyman's library, or Byzantine Rutgers Series)

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