Alexandriad

>>8490334
Fujoshit.

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>>8490812
Actually I just borrowed The King Must Die. Is that a good one? I chose it since I think I'd better off reading something without a lot of intricate historical baggage, given that my classics knowledge is mediocre.

>>8490812
Wait, is this ancient Greek gay fantasy porn?

>>8490909
Same author, but not the same series. I've been meaning to read that one too, it had great reviews in its day. Set in ancient Crete

>>8491010
Are you a gay or a girl, Anon-sempai?

>>8491036
Bi, with a bit of a hard-on for the Greek comrade/lover form of love (think Sacred Band etc)

>>8491050
Bi boy?

>>8491105
Yep. Why so curious?

>>8491122
Because I'm lonely and bored.

>>8491184
I should have guessed, to be fair. I'll soothe your loneliness if you like, anon

>>8491189
H-how?

>>8491191
Not like that, you prick.

>>8491202
Ah... what's your experience/interest in the classics?

>>8491211
Always loved them; grew up on stories of Alexander and Odysseus. Read the big three (Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid) as well as some epics from other countries like the Tain and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
I just find Graeco-Roman culture so beautiful, it's the core of our civilisation. What about you?

>>8491221
I read a lot about mythology- especially Greek and Egyptian- when I was much younger. In highschool I took Latin for two years, and around this time I read (in translation of course) the Iliad, the Æneid, some of each of the tragedians (Æschylus>Sophocles>>>>>>>>Euripides), as well as obtaining some general knowledge of the period. But, very shamefully, I really didn't read much. I can orient myself but I've barely really walked along the landscape, so to speak.
Now that I'm in university I'm taking a class in Ancient Greek Warfare, which has brought me to reconsider the Iliad as true masterpiece and reignited my interest (which had journeyed to Christian history and then back to Ancient Egypt again) in the Greeks, especially in the Archaic age.
I'm now burning to learn the Greek to read Homer and Æschylus, but my language backlog is already so large, and I've already committed to Arabic as my college language course (and taking several isn't all that viable) and might even also have to soon begin study of Akkadian (perhaps one of the most difficult languages, cuneiform being such a cumbersome and unfriendly system- despite their reputation hieroglyphics are actually pretty rational and pleasant)... I suppose I'll have to teach myself Greek then, after I get through with Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar.
(Language backlog: Egyptian, Greek, Japanese, German)

>>8490334
Haven't read that one, but I greatly enjoyed Last of the Wine and Mask of Apollo. Actually did begin your pic related, but didn't get into it like the others and didn't finish it.

>>8491570
I've never had a chance to do any classics at school but I'll hopefully do it at university. It would be wonderful to read the texts in the original language and feel the proper rhythms. Also, my knowledge of classical history is not particularly detailed so it'd be good to improve that

>>8492094
Are those Renault books too?

>>8491570
Akkadian. Was that the language the Epic of Gilgamesh was written in?

>>8492761
Ja, the language of the Babylonians and Assyrians, though there are earlier poems about Gilgamesh in Sumerian (mostly corresponding to episodes from the later epic) and Gilgamesh himself was a possibly historical Sumerian.
There's also a bit of a Gilgamesh poem in Hittite.