Quintus: I’m going to the market do u want anything
Cicero: I want the beauty and power of the res publica to be seen and acknowledged by the many and the corrupt hearts of the men of Rome to be stilled. Catiline and Caesar wrecking havoc on our city must be stopped an-
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i think if you put in enough academic investment at some point you should be allowed to talk about long dead historical figures like theyre your friends
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I’m starting to think that the reason there’s so many weirdos in the history of Roman politics is that literally everyone was equally qualified for the job so in order to stand out you needed a gimmick. You needed like. A bit that you committed to.
Yes you’re a wealthy man with a very impressive family history and have composed some good poetry and have a history of good military service. So is literally everyone else. You’ve gotta find a thing. Start wearing weird hats. Throw figs at people or something. Refuse to learn Greek or some shit.
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There is something deeply bittersweet about getting so invested in the life and works of someone who is long gone. You read about them, you collect informations, you think you know them, but your knowledge will always be incomplete. We base our perception on what we have, which sometimes is not very much. You cannot know how they really looked like (if they lived before the invention of photography) or how their voice sounded. A million little details you would like to know. You can grasp something of their lives if you are lucky enough to have personal objects, diaries, letters preserved... but even then it's not enough. They lived, they breathed like you do, and now they are gone. You both walked on the same earth but there are centuries separating you. There is a certain ache in that.
I've been meaning to make a new pinned post for this blog with a few resources etc. for a million years and now I'm procrastinating so here it is.
Link to old pinned post (articles about racism and white supremacy in classics) here. I highly recommend checking it out.
Under the cut you will find a list of resources that I have found invaluable. Please put your own in the replies and reblogs!
Dickinson College Commentaries: Latin and Greek grammars, word lists, and intermediate level commentaries on ancient texts.
Perseus Digital Library and Scaife viewer: absolute classic. Ancient texts and dictionaries. You can click a word in the text and see its potential functions and its definition in a few different dictionaries. also will let you view some texts side by side with an English translation.
philolog.us: literally just Lewis and Short, LSJ, and Slater dictionaries imported from Perseus, but with a really simple interface that makes it the easiest online dictionary to use if you just want to look up a word.
Logeion and Morpho: Logeion lets you look up a word in Latin or Greek and see it in a ton of different dictionaries at once. Morpho will tell you all the possible forms for any given word.
Diogenes Viewer: app that basically does what Perseus does except you can download it. There's a web version with open source texts but to get the full benefit you need to have both the app and the TLG and PHI Greek and Latin text databases downloaded. Send an ask off anon if you want more information about those.
Haverford Bridge: vocab lists for selected texts. There's also a page with the tools they use to generate the lists so you can make your own.
johnstoniatexts: texts that Ian Johnston has translated and put online for free. It doesn't have everything but it has kind of a mind-boggling amount considering everything on here is translated by one person. The translations tend to be a little wordier than I prefer but it's still my first stop when I'm looking for easily accessible translations to recommend to people because I know they're fairly recent and reasonably well-done.
Geoffrey Steadman: free early intermediate level commentaries in Latin and Greek. If you use them and have the means please consider giving him a couple dollars!
PHI Latin Texts: lots of Latin with word + author search functions.
theoi.com: theoi has source material in translation for a number of gods and mythical figures. They don't have everything but if you're looking for every story with x god it's usually a decent place to start.
Intermediate Ancient Greek Language: free open source Greek textbook covering Greek in more detail than your intro textbook/course.
This list is not comprehensive and I will probably keep adding to it!
Also if you're looking for anything feel free to send an ask and I'll see if I can find it and/or poll the masses (everyone following this blog). Anon is off at least until I'm done with finals but if you ask to have it answered privately I'll honor that.
allen and greenough’s latin grammar on dickinson college commentaries (which you have already mentioned). specifically the indexes, for instances of ‘is this a specific weird verb use or am i stupid’
digital prosopography of the roman republic for quickly searching genealogical/prosopographical/dates of magistracies etc info for the roman republic. it’s like broughton’s magistrates of the roman republic but better
attalus, specifically their index of names and chronologies of sources
topostext, which maps primary sources onto. a map. of the ancient world
indexes to the works of ronald syme. you do have to download this one and it is massive and hurts my computer to search. but it is very useful if you are rummaging through syme
i would listen to speeches by cicero at the rostra. i would read caesar's commentaries on the gallic war in the roman forum. i would fear invasions from the germanic tribes. i would marry a man with a purple bordered toga and distinguished ancestors and follow the mos maiorum. i would get proscribed and have my property confiscated and be declared an enemy of the state
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