[lit-ideas] Re: Löb Is All You Need
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:00:42 EDT
Roman authors now then.
Cheers,
J L Speranza,
The Swimming Pool Library
Estancia San Miguel, Campo.
Calle 58, No. 611
La Plata, Buenos Aires, B1900BPY
Argentina
(*) indicates the title is (so far) lacking in the Swimming Pool Library
ROMAN AUTHORS: Ammianus I Res Gestae (*) .ApuleiuS “Metamorphoses” some are
as ribald as they are witty. I will own these soon, I hope, when I buy them.
St. AugustinUS (*) This is Christian. Aulus “Noctes Atticae” (*, 3) with
philosophical issues Ausonius (*) BedA“Historia ecclesiastica populorum
anglorum
” (*) determined to buy it at some point, as I already have the Anglo-Saxon
version published by Manchester University Press, and I know the story of the
Angles, Jutes, Saxons by heart. BoethiUS “De consolatione philosophiae”
(SPL, and proud of it) I also have King Alfred’s OE translation. Caesar I
ordered the Gallic War. The remaining 2 volumes I should possibly own too. I
did
have the Gallic War in a Cambridge Latin-only edition, and love it. It’s all
about the 55 and 54 BC. Cato “De re rustica” (*) -- living near the
pampas I should. Geary writes, “To have this volume was the mark of the country
Gentleman in Regency England”. Catullus “This Second Edition restores lines
that had been omitted from the Latin text for their "indecency," (*) Celsus “
De medicina” (*3) These books contain accounts of many operations, including
amputation.. “It _is_ fun to read, and remember in those days they didn’t
have anything like anaesthesia” (Geary). CICERO Rhetorica ad Herennium” I
should own and at least. On Invention. The Best Kind of Orator. Topics On the
Orator: On Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. On the Divisions of Oratory In Catilinam
Claudian I should own the volume on what he calls The Gothic Wars”. ““The rape
of Prosperpina” is also engaging” says Geary. ColumellaI ”Res Rustica” (*3)
–“A must for the country gentleman” says Geary.. Cornelius, “On generals”
(*). Florus”Historia Romae” Geary who, like Loeb, has a passion for
Imperial Rome, owns this. I don’t.”. Frontinus “Aqueducts of Rome”(*) . “An
engaging read if you are into the urban sewage system”, says Geary. Horace
Carmines et Epodai I own that, so I should soon order his “Ars poetica” which
looks like yet another of my cups of tea (“Beatus ille”). St. JeromE (*)
This
is Christian. Juvenal (*) LivIUS Historia Romae (*14) –“A must read”,
wrote Geary in “Epea Pteroenta”. Lucan “Pharsalia” (*) Geary says it’s fun. “
Pharsus”, he says, gives us ‘farce’” Lucretius “De rerum natural” (SPL),
very entertaining. Manilius “Astronomica” (*).”This is fun if you own a
telescope” says Geary.. Marcus Fronto (*2) Martial (*) Minor Poets (*) OviD “
Amores” I ordered it “Ars amandi” I also ordered “Metamorphoses” (2) So it’s “
Fausti”, an engaging calendar tr. by Frazier ours and “Tristia” which was a
favourite of my first Latin teacher and would have me memorized them that I
should own. Petronius Satyricon I ordered this. Comes with Seneca Plautus
(*). “Plautus made the Romans laugh. This highly successful playwright
transformed the mild-mannered Greek New Comedy written more than a century
earlier
into a more playful and ribald style.” PliNIUS SR (vol. X, SPL), and MUST own
Vol. IX. which discusses bronze sculpture and marble sculpture. PlinIUS JR
(*) Propertius (*) Prudentius (*) This is Christian. QuintilianUS “Institutio
Oratoria” (*) Here Quintilian gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning
with the young boy); I should own this, as I’m interesting what Quintilian
thought of educating someone who doesn’t speak proper Latin (as a ‘young boy’
). The Greeks take for granted that one has _learned_ Greek, but Quintilianus
seems to have been the only scholar to deal with “babies”. QuintuS “Historia
Alexandris (*2) I don’t own this. Geary does. “It follows the film with
Colin Farrell to a T. You’ll like it”. Old Latin (*). “You should own the
last volume, of bathroom graffiti – very thought provoking” (Geary). Sallust
(*) Seneca. De Vita Beata. De Otio. De Tranquillitate Animi. (*). “Hercules”.
Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra. Here is the first of.
Hercules on Oeta (*) I should own some more Seneca. Seneca SR Controversiae
.(*2). “They are fun – bathroom reading” (Geary). SidoniUS (*, 2). Once Allison
Parker quoted me (from a copy her husband borrowed from the library) from vol.
ii, where Sidonius uses ‘implicatura’. “Very funny”, said Geary, “but
hardly the Gricean sense of the word”. “Grecian My Gricean”. Silius ‘Punica”
(2). Don’t own them.”Very bloody” says Geary with a strange smile Statius (3.
*), none of them includes the “Achilleia” which he wrote. SSuetonius “De
vita Caesarum” (2, SPL). Very good.,. Tacitus “Germania” (SPL) on Germania
mentioning the Ingvaeones, or old Angles. Terence (*) With titles like “The
self-tormentor”, and “The Eunuch”. this sounds like fun. “But don’t expect the
kind of Joe Orton humour you enjoy, JL”, Geary advises. TertullianUS (*)
Christian. ValeriuS Argonautica (*) Valerius Maximus Factotum/Dictorum
Memorabilium (* 2) VarrO De lingua latina (* 2).. Pretty good at etymologies,
I
read. Velareus “Res Gestae Divi Augusti”(*). VErgiLIUS Aeneid (2 SPL).
Fascinating. Vitruvius De architectura (*2) It’s about “temples and the
architectural orders” I guess it’s the second volume that introduces what
Leonardo Da
Vinci called ‘The Vitruvian Man’ cf. Le Corbusier.
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