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Underappreciated Classics 2017-05-26 01:21:41 Post No. 9553981
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Looking for influental oldschool lit that isn't much discussed.
Examples include;
>The Golden Ass, Apuleius
>Orphic Argonautica
>Marriage of Philology and Mercury, Martianus Capella
>Geneology of the Pagan Gods, Boccaccio
>Courtier, Castiglione
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>>9553981
Read some Dio Chrysostomos, baby!
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>>9553981
How oldschool is oldschool? I'm going to push it and say
>Biography of the Life of Manuel, James Cabell
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>>9553981
Book of the Courtier's wonderful. Burton's Anatomy. Walton's Lives. Aubrey's Brief Lives. The Worthies of London. Cardano's Autobiography (a nyrb). Pater's Marius. Satyricon (great), Procopius' Secret History. Lichtenberg's Wastebooks (this may disappoint [you] but I'm a fan- also a nyrb), Heine's prose..
The first 10 that come to mind-
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>>9553981
So glad to see Apuleius mentioned here. We read him in my Latin class and it was one of the funniest things I've read.
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>>9553981
>mfw I realize that most of the classical works that were written weren't preserved
Imagine all the masterpieces we will never be able to read
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>>9553997
The Stranger.
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>>9554061
Great conclusion, too.
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>>9554058
Gellius' Attic Nights.
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>Cur Deus Homo by St. Anselm
medieval logicboo proves central christian doctrines a priori
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>>9554066
Imagine all the classics that came along to replace them, beta cuck nu male bitch faggot.
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>>9553981
Lucans civil war and Petronius's Satyricon! Particularly if you can read latin, it really displays the violence and debauchery in a whole new level.
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I don't see Aeschylus talked about enough here
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>>9554367
Satyricon in Latin is some fucked up shit nigga it's like watching a fast-paced show of degeneracy and violence and laughter only Roman and fundamentally alien to us
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>>9554399
>fundamentally alien to us
You mean things like having your asshole stuffed with an enchanted leather dildo as a cure for divinely caused impotence? You think that's alien? For some reason, I find it strangely relatable.
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>>9554061
Funny it is, also fresh, picaresque, ironic, a bit mystical in a playful way and even lightly moralistic--up to the final chapter that is, when the author seems to have undergone some sort of remarkably effective brainwash. As a result, he entirely and without a hint of irony or self-awareness goes into full "MUST--WORSHIP--ISIS" mode and adopts a creepy cultish tone that must have served as inspiration for whatever induction manuals Scientists or Jehovah's Witnesses use. What the hell was up with that?
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>>9555401
Apuleius was a Middle Platonist, desu. The Timaeus of Plato should clarify some of the allusions and metaphors in the Golden Ass
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