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#190 - Read Caesar's Conquest of Gaul earlier this year and found it fascinating, but I think I enjoyed The Civil Wars more. The version I read of it had Latin on the left and English on the right, and I kept going back and forth trying to see what, if anything, I remembered from my two years ... ... book in the series.
Also, since we have that six week deadline on the Penguin books, I'm going to read Julius Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, with the hope of finishing it in the next month. ... story. I kind of need sweet, nice people to read about after these last two "brood of vipers".
I'm also reading Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar :-\ for Penguin Classics. Feels like school on that one. ... my Penguin Classic, but it wasn't what I was suppose to get. I was suppose to receive Fortress Beseiged, but instead got The Conquest of Gaul... not really into military campaign books. *rolling my eyes so far I see my nape hairs growing.*
Also got The Richest Season by Maryann McFadde ... ... that's great. I wish we could buy these sleeves at the bookstore to cover our paperbacks. It's fantabulous!
I also got Caesar: The Conquest of Gaul from Penguin Classics to review, which I'm not too happy about. The book I was supposed to get, Fortress Beseiged, is out of print. Meh.. I ... ... got The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls! I will have to order that one. I got Principles of Human Knowledge. My husband got The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar, which should be interesting. I didnt' know Julius Caesar was a writer. The Gallic Wars are just overly combined. ... book in the few days remaining in March, then these are my top 3:
1. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
2. Commentaries on the Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar
3. Out by Natsuo Kirino
I won't say that Dreamers of the Day is as good as The Sparrow, but it comes close ... ... could catalog their Loeb Classical Library books by searching for "LLC72." It would pull up LCL 72, which is Caesar's Gallic Wars.
Because of edition issues, I'd want to do it as an abbreviation-to-ISBN mapping, so that LCL72 would map to 0674990803.
I think we'd do it in Common Know ... 19. Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. 8 stars. Something about reading the actual words written by one of the greatest Roman generals makes everything I've read about him and his times more real to me. I wish this translation had both the Latin and English, like the The Civ ... 1. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (8/10)
2. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (9/10)
3. Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar (8/10)
4. Cicero by Anthony Everitt (8/10)
5. Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak 8/10
6. Tie between The Fall of Troy ... #56 Storeetllr: Is Gallic Wars really wonderful? I wanted to read it when I was younger, but never got my Latin to the point where it was possible (somehow it never occurred to me to read it in translation), and then I heard that it was pretty dreary anyway. But it you like it, maybe I'll ... ... late 1700s that is, apparently, considered the sequel to Castle Rackrent, which I finished last week, as well as Caesar's Gallic Wars. Wonderful stuff!
ETA touchstones. Am currently dipping into Ennui by Maria Edgeworth, a novel from I think the late 1700s, and Caesar's Gallic Wars. Wonderful stuff!
ETA ~ Oops, there's a new thread for this week. I'm going to repost there. Julius Caesar's The Conquest of Gaul? ... Recently I read a translation of Julius Caesar's The Civil Wars and found it fascinating, so I've also got his War Commentaries on reserve from the library.
Do you like only ancient histories/biographies, or do you also like fiction? There are some groups on LT specifically ... ... and scaifea, you are much more advanced than I am. No, I haven't read the letters of Cicero or Caesar's Commentaries and Gallic Wars but I'd like to someday. I'm not there yet. I'm no purist or classicist, so reading McCullough doesn't bother me a bit, though watching the beloved characters ... ... in the letters than he does in McCullough's books.
If you loved the McCullough books, I would really recommend Caesar's Gallic Wars if you haven't already read it, and Cicero's Letters to Atticus. Caesar's works are brilliant, and Cicero's are informally written, full of gossip about ... ... in 6 books!
What really bothered me about Goldsworthy was he seemed so indifferent and almost hostile towards Caesar's Gallic War (in fact, towards Caesar himself). I read Gallic Wars andCivil War because of McCullough; if I had read Goldsworthy first, I never would have picked up the ... The first "grown up" history I read was Caesar's Commentaries (Rex Warner translation). ... I also saw the mess for Virgil and Horatius, and decided it was just too messy to sort out... Same thing even for Caesar's The conquest of Gaul.
The only author, for which I have found a correct separation between English and Latin versions is Milne A.A. and the latin translations of Winn ... ... Latin I've had one opportunity to read him, and that was in my first semester out of baby Latin. We read excerpts from the Bellum Gallicum at a very slow pace. Forget about the Bellum Civile. But a course like that can hardly be said to comrpise either teaching or study; it's merely staying ...
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