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Reading Plutarch's Lives for the first time right now. Pretty 180
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:31 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night I feel dumb and prole for not having read this stuff before I'm on Pericles at the moment and highly enjoying it |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:35 PM Author: aquamarine cumskin link? need some inspiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246798) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:40 PM Author: aquamarine cumskin https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=plutarch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246831) |
Date: September 19th, 2017 8:32 PM Author: autistic 180 partner hospital this is recommended reading by xo bannon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246771) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:32 PM Author: Fear-inspiring shrine 180. I've read some individual lives but I really need to read the whole thing. Might get to it after I finish all of Aristophanes' plays. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246778) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:34 PM Author: curious fuchsia state mexican Can you recommend a translation? I like Fagles Illiad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246790) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:36 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night idk about the Aristophanes, but for Plutarch, I am reading the Dryden translation in the Encyclopedia Brittanica Great Books of the Western World series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246802) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:37 PM Author: Fear-inspiring shrine To steal a concept from exercise, the best translation is the one you'll actually read. I can't read Greek or Latin so I'm certainly no expert on which translation is the most well-done. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246810) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:39 PM Author: curious fuchsia state mexican Ever thought of learning to read either one of them? I have untouched Greek and Latin texts sitting on my shelf. If only I could spend the time I spend poasting studying Greek LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246825) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:45 PM Author: Fear-inspiring shrine Nah. I feel like it'd be a lot of work with limited upside, since I'm not a professional classics scholar and have little innate interest in languages. The thousands of hours I'd have to invest to master those a language could be spent just reading classical texts in translation, or for that matter just studying other fields entirely. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246854) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:52 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night this is the kind of thing that would be so awesome to just download into your brain a la The Matrix, but that tech won't be around til long after we're dead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246893) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:39 PM Author: excitant hideous idiot The Penguin Classics edition should suffice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246824) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:39 PM Author: aquamarine cumskin im pretty sure guttenberg press website has all these (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246827) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:40 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night I can't stand reading shit online I like to underline, take notes, etc., plus there's just something way more satisfying about holding a book in your hand and turning a page |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:41 PM Author: curious fuchsia state mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246834) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:41 PM Author: aquamarine cumskin (that guy on the bus) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246835) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:45 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night (at the coffeeshop), actually (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246851) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:45 PM Author: excitant hideous idiot *pushes glasses up* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246856) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:43 PM Author: excitant hideous idiot https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Roman-Republic-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449345/ https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Rome-Lives-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140441581 |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:46 PM Author: Fear-inspiring shrine I find that I simply remember books a lot better when I have a physical copy. I should start highlighting and taking notes as well, but I have a lame aversion to "scuffing up" books I own. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246857) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:50 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night One thing you can do without marking them up is start a "commonplace book", in which you record 180 quotes/passages you come across for later reference. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246887) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:55 PM Author: Fear-inspiring shrine That could work, but it's less about quotes and more about wanting to flag the 180 but easily-forgotten facts I encounter in history books. I'm reading a big fat book on the French Revolution right now and it's full of them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246916) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 12:07 AM Author: odious telephone Highlight in Kindle Export highlights every now and again Tag exported snippets and store in database |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:20 AM Author: Fear-inspiring shrine I always read physical books though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34250286) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 3:05 AM Author: Seedy glassy alpha I don't know any of these translators, but you are right: Fagles is so good for Iliad/Odyssey (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34248909) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:35 PM Author: beady-eyed stage PROTIP: read tons of that old shit. Homer, Thucydides, the major playwrights, etc.
many people today scoff at them and have literally never actually read the Odyssey.
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:37 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night cr I have Herodotus and Thucydides on deck as well |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:38 PM Author: curious fuchsia state mexican THis is how I feel about music as well. High IQ ppl should just be reading this and listening to Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Mozart etc. The craftsmanship shit of this old stuff is just on another level than the GC crap being churned out today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246815) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:52 PM Author: aquamarine cumskin going to listen to bach, handel, scarlatti, mozart from now on ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246900) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 11:30 PM Author: Thriller giraffe really tough guy I'd like to, but it seems overwhelming, like I have no idea where to start and then proceed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34247905) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 11:53 PM Author: copper appetizing set haunted graveyard 10 years ago someone on here recommended starting with bach's goldberg variations for harpsichord, which led me down the rabbit hole.
bach is 180^180 |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 12:00 AM Author: Thriller giraffe really tough guy ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34248144) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 6:48 PM Author: curious fuchsia state mexican Yeah Bach is the place to start. I highly recommend Bach records on harpsichord over piano.
Probably good to just go chronologically
Bach Haydn Mozart Beethoven
Then whatever tickles your fancy from the romantics (schubert, schumann, chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky). At that point you're good to go and discover more stuff |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 5:15 AM Author: underhanded box office incel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34249054) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 9:41 AM Author: Pink office (direct descendant of Domenico Scarlatti)
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Date: September 20th, 2017 6:44 PM Author: curious fuchsia state mexican lol. Yeah I'm trolling for the keyboard sonatas. They are fantastic tho! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34253908) |
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Date: September 19th, 2017 8:51 PM Author: opaque violent pisswyrm plutarch's lives are 180, especially of men he's sure are wicked like alcibiades (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34246890) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 12:05 AM Author: Fear-inspiring shrine Rate this mosaic of Alcibiades from Sparta that makes him look like a conniving supervillain:
http://www.livius.org/site/assets/files/21950/alcibiades_mus_sparta_jvv.jpg |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 12:08 AM Author: opaque violent pisswyrm the man cucked a spartan king. it would have lessened everyone not to treat him as some kind of magical anal faggot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34248192) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 12:05 AM Author: Fiercely-loyal Sienna Half-breed 180 work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34248174) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 3:03 AM Author: Seedy glassy alpha Ty thread delivered. Haven't read the Plutarch but sounds like I should (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34248906) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 9:38 AM Author: Dead Heaven Karate O SOLON, my solon
I liked how back then they just said this is how this guy was on account of his immutable nature, which in the coming years we will find to be totally supported by genetic research |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 7:06 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254149) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:19 AM Author: useless multi-billionaire pit 180. I've read most of the Roman lives but need to go back and read the Greeks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34250273) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 7:06 PM Author: Fear-inspiring shrine Amusingly I'm the opposite; have always found the Greeks substantially more interesting than the Romans. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254147) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 8:09 PM Author: curious fuchsia state mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254723) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 6:43 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night Rate this description towards the end of the Pericles chapter: "At which time Pericles also lost his sister, and the greatest part of his relations and friends, and those who had been most useful and serviceable to him in managing the affairs of state. However, he did not shrink or give in upon these occasions, nor betray or lower his high spirit and the greatness of his mind under all his misfortunes; he was not even so much as seen to weep or mourn, or even attend the burial of any of his friends or relations, till at last he lost his only remaining legitimate son. Subdued by this blow, and yet striving still, as far as he could, to maintain his principle, and to preserve and keep up the greatness of his soul, when he came, however, to perform the ceremony of putting a garland of flowers upon the head of the corpse, he was vanquished by his passion at the sight, so that he burst into exclamations, and shed copious tears, having never done any such thing in all his life before." |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 7:19 PM Author: translucent unhinged boistinker affirmative action that sold it for me
grabbing it now |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 8:02 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254652) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 8:04 PM Author: translucent unhinged boistinker affirmative action any other recs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254674) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 8:06 PM Author: insane menage queen of the night I've also recently enjoyed Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254702) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 8:12 PM Author: translucent unhinged boistinker affirmative action k, is it better than the Republic? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254757) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 8:04 PM Author: silver mad cow disease i read most of this in college but dont remember most of it. should re-read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254681) |
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Date: September 20th, 2017 8:20 PM Author: odious telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#34254820) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2018 4:44 PM Author: Turquoise fighting den coffee pot I read this for the first time this summer and am re-reading in conjunction with other history books. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#37338153) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2018 5:00 PM Author: bronze stead corn cake good read--basically historical gossip (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737015&forum_id=2#37338200) |