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1. The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
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2. The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
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3. Amphitryo Comoedia (Lingua Latina) (Latin Edition)
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5. Delphi Complete Works of Seneca the Younger (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 27)
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6. Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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7. A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics (Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought)
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8. The Republic
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10. Greek Tragedy: Selected Works of Aeschylus and Sophocles: Prometheus Bound, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Choephoroe, The Eumenides, ... Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, Electra
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12. Electra
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13. Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
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14. The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play In Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics)
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15. Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition
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16. Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press
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17. Oxford Readings in Aeschylus (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies)
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18. Sophocles, Volume II. Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus (Loeb Classical Library No. 21)
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typische Verbindungen = Kollokationen?
I'm going to assume you've already gone through Lingua Latina 1 and 2. (BTW there are other ones with the same style of Latin glosses like: https://www.amazon.com/Caesaris-Commentarii-Gallico-Lingua-Latina/dp/1585102326/ref=pd_sim_14_13?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1585102326&pd_rd_r=JCPQ1JW98FZ0FFP1PYK2&pd_rd_w=nWCk3&pd_rd_wg=GI00g&psc=1&refRID=JCPQ1JW98FZ0FFP1PYK2
but they're kind of hard to find apparently, considering they just throw "Lingua LAtina" after to show the edition...
Here's one with some bible stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Epitome-Historiae-Sacrae-Christi-Narratione/dp/1585104256/ref=pd_sim_14_20?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1585104256&pd_rd_r=RYEWCXZ23VQX695ER2NS&pd_rd_w=dv3qm&pd_rd_wg=FpPNK&psc=1&refRID=RYEWCXZ23VQX695ER2NS
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https://www.amazon.com/Ars-Amatoria-Lingua-Latina-Ovid/dp/1585106348/ref=pd_sim_14_13?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1585106348&pd_rd_r=AGTD6A26M03XJPTCYDW0&pd_rd_w=dE96G&pd_rd_wg=87lDQ&psc=1&refRID=AGTD6A26M03XJPTCYDW0
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https://www.amazon.com/Sallustius-Cicero-Catilina-Lingua-Latina/dp/1585103675/ref=pd_sim_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1585103675&pd_rd_r=AGTD6A26M03XJPTCYDW0&pd_rd_w=dE96G&pd_rd_wg=87lDQ&psc=1&refRID=AGTD6A26M03XJPTCYDW0
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https://www.amazon.com/Amphitryo-Comoedia-Lingua-Latina-Plautus/dp/158510194X/ref=pd_sim_14_9?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=158510194X&pd_rd_r=AGTD6A26M03XJPTCYDW0&pd_rd_w=dE96G&pd_rd_wg=87lDQ&psc=1&refRID=AGTD6A26M03XJPTCYDW0
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https://www.amazon.com/Vergil-Aeneis-Libros-Lingua-Latina/dp/158510633X/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=158510633X&pd_rd_r=AGTD6A26M03XJPTCYDW0&pd_rd_w=dE96G&pd_rd_wg=87lDQ&psc=1&refRID=AGTD6A26M03XJPTCYDW0
I'm kind of concerned about the... contents, they seem rather short (only 2 books + parts of the Aeneid?) But if it keeps the method up like I've been told once or twice and you've not passed the level where you can breeze through it, it could be useful and worth it? Even for what shouldn't be more than a few days of reading at most. :P
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There's a book called Colloquial and Literary Latin by Eleannor Dickey which shows a lot of "incorrections" found in various writers, i.e. how they violate the rules taught by grammar obsessed professors etc. It's kind of cool/fun.
You know Vox Latina, right?
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My personal path through Latin was like... LinguaLatinaLinguaLatinaLinguaLatinaLinguaLatinaLinguaLatinaLinguaLatinaLinguaLatinaLinguaLatinaLinguaLatinaLinguaLatina OOH LIVING LATIN, WAIT THEY'RE FREAKS, Oh cool I'll do some stuff at uni... Oh God, I'm already in advanced classes because these Germans doing it highschool know nothing, oh, that TA is hawt! I'll go to those things and listen to her talk about Homer even though I don't know Greek! Oh cool, this Czech guy online speaks it well! Oooh lala.
Then I read funny medieval texts (digitized since I can't make my way through pictures/the different scripts they use, but one day I'll even learn the shorthand!)
So... This... http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf
http://learningtechnologies.truman.edu/r_harrison/charpcl.htm (make sure to scroll down, it has multiple scroll bars (badly cody) so it's annoying, but there's a bit of stuff there)
A. G. Rigg's A History of Anglo Latin Literature: 1066-1422 is cool.
One of my favorite books ever is: Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
But good luck finding it, I only found it once in a library I visited, goes over all the writers from like 1500-1600 in England, all the plays, poems, swimming manuals and so on they wrote, stylistics, errors common to certain printers, vocab about the different printers, and all this stuff!
(It also gave me my favorite language learning technique, of translating something from the language, then back in it and comparing, so as to notice and learn someone's style etc.)
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But that's... not quite what you're looking for I guess.
THIS IShttp://linguax.com/lexica/wagner.php?searchedLG=latinitas (I hope)
There are quite a few synonyms etc. listed for more... core words like: http://linguax.com/lexica/wagner.php?searchedLG=filius
Da findste auch diese typischen Verbindungen, soweit ich durchblick, worauf der Duden damit hin will :D
(There're more on the site like: http://www.linguax.com/lexica/ but Wagner's the best I think)
You coul also try: https://books.google.com/books?id=1IwAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Maybe those help?
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61498463/f91.item.zoom
For fairy tales, I recommend the following:
For mythology and classical studies, there are a couple that are basically required reading for any Mythology or Classics class. Since several people have already recommended anthologies of Greek myths, I'm going to err more on the "Classics" side of the conversation:
If you are really reading it on a Kindle, any complete works will be a navigation nightmare and likely difficult to read. I checked out the Oxford, which is at least reasonably authoritative and unlikely to contain errors found in other editions. There is a huge introductory section before the plays start so you will need to get to the table of contents and click on the right one to jump, and it is more than $15. There are some pretty excellent apps for iPad if you are using that.
Otherwise, I guess Oxford is ok but unless you are looking for a deal, if you don't want paper I think you would be better off getting individual plays for Kindle. You can find at least some editions of individual plays from the Folger Library on Kindle, for example, and those are excellent, although they will run you $5 - $6 each. Some Arden editions are available for Kindle, too, and those are even better, but more expensive.
If you don't need the accompanying essays, etc., and just want the play in a readable format from people who know what they are doing, there are some editions that look pretty good, like this one for Macbeth for only $0.99.
I just wanted to drop by and say that I really appreciate this sub. I've been lurking a long time and I've recently started doing a bit more active reading thanks to some recommendations and just the general conversations that happen here. So thank you all for being awesome.
Also, for those who use e-readers, here is a great deal for you: The complete works of Seneca, in both English and Latin, for $2.51. It's a huge book, so I haven't been thorough in checking, but so far it's pretty awesome. This also includes his tragedies, by the way. Enjoy!
God, excellent question. Though I admittedly haven't read more than one (alas!), I used this one way back in the day and really enjoyed it. Nicely poetic while not sacrificing meaning.
I'd recommend A Rasa Reader: https://www.amazon.com/Rasa-Reader-Aesthetics-Historical-Sourcebooks-ebook/dp/B01ERNT7EA
It's one of the classic readers for Alankara the branch of Indian philosophy devoted to systematic reflection on poetry.
It covers pretty much the first millennium of it's history, from the first work of Alankara, the Natya Shastra, through the linguistic turn of Anandavardhana, culminating in the cognitive turn of Bhatta Nayaka and Abhinavagupta and the shift from formal analysis of poetic language to analysis of aesthetic effect and audience response.
The basic idea of classical (eg post-Natya Shastra) Alankara is the understanding of the emotional content of poetic language as a kind of "meaning", analogous to its cognitive content (the meaning, proper) and the subsequent unfolding of a theory of poetry along similar lines (but interestingly different) to earlier theories of meaning developed for ordinary language use.
If you like Fagles (and I do), he also translated Aeschylus' The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) as well as Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone). I haven't actually read either of these, although his translation of Aeschylus is on my bookshelf, and I can't speak to their popularity but I'd imagine they're somewhat similar to his translations of epic poetry. I don't think he translated Euripides though. Hope this helps!
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Ronald Hutton's Stations of the Sun does a fantastic (if sometimes dry) job of exploring the development of the modern pagan wheel of the year and the holidays therein.
Unfortunately it's a bit thin on the ground. The best I can find (that is, with any credible information) is:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Syria-Recent-History-John-McHugo/0863561608/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1482915568&sr=8-2&keywords=syria
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Struggle-Syria-Patrick-Seale-x/dp/1850430284/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482915812&sr=1-1&keywords=seale+the+struggle+for+syria
https://www.amazon.com/Greater-Syria-Ambition-Daniel-Pipes/dp/0195060229 (this guy is well known for his pro-Zionist bias, but this is still one of the most detailed books I have ever found on this period of Syrian history)
And this isn't a history book, as such. But it seems to have one of the most comprehensive accounts of modern Syrian history I have managed to find:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110629175419/http://countrystudies.us/syria/
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This is sourced on a couple of wikipedia pages about the 1949 coup. I don't know how helpful it might be in providing a picture of that particular time.
As is this on a few pages about the early presidents.
Anthony Nutting's book on Nasser paints a nice little picture of the state of Syrian politics before the UAR was established. But I wouldn't recommend buying that book just to read about Syria, as you will be quite disappointed. It constitutes about 0.5% of the whole book.
I'd like to leave the floor open for someone to offer their own suggestions here, too.
To get started I'd recommend particular translations rather than particular plays. Ted Hughes' version of the Oresteia is far from the most accurate, but it does the best job I know of capturing some of the power of Greek tragedy in English poetry. For Euripides I'd recommend Collier and Machemer's Medea, and for Aristophanes Douglass Parker's Lysistrata.
What you describe has existed since ancient times. In Freudian psychology "Daddy issues" are called"Electra complex". It is a stage in development where you have to stop being attracted to your father, and realise you have to look more like your mother, because you are a woman and not a man.
Watch this video about the "Electra complex": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VAo-FQTB8E&feature=youtu.be
You can read some books about the Electra complex, like Sophocles' "Electra", Jean Paul Sartre's "No exit" & "The flies" and Honore De Balzac's "Pere Goriot"
Letters from a Stoic and Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics) seem to be the two most recommended on this sub. Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters also contains a shorter selection of his letters along with some of his essays.
A complete collection of his letters is available on Wikisource as well.
Mike Nichols has a collection of essays on the sabbats.
Book wise, "Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain" by Ronald Hutton is scholarly text detailing their origins and practices.
There are tons of videos on YouTube, you'll have to sort through them for those that focus on the historical side.
> Every six weeks is a sabbat
8 sabbats separated by six weeks each would make a 48 week year. Actually the minor sabbats (solstices and equinoxes) are seven weeks after the last major sabbat, while the major sabbats are six weeks after the last minor.
There's various issues around the names. Eostre is Germanic so shouldn't be used in a Celtic context. Ditto Litha, though there's no historic evidence I'm aware of that the solstice was ever historically called Litha. Mabon is an invention of Aiden Kelley, the autumn equinox was never called that by the celts or anyone else. Yule, again, is Germanic.
For a sensible and informed discussion of the festivals I would recommend Ron Hutton's The Stations of the Sun. Professor Hutton knows his stuff.
You can try the Hitopodesha and the Panchatantra, collections of ancient Indian folk tales.
Alternatively, you can try reading some ancient drama, like the Abhijñānaśākuntalam of Kalidasa.
I like to tailor my recommendations to what I know about people, so a request like this leaves me a little at a disadvantage. Basically, I believe that there may be no such thing as a universally applicable book, and to that end, whether or not a book is really a "must-read" for any given person depends on the circumstances of that person's life. So what I'm going to give you instead is this: a list of the ten books that I've read that I think (at the moment) have the best chance of having an impact on any random English-speakers life. Make of it what you will.
Ahem. In no particular order:
Looking for this play book published in 2017:
https://www.amazon.com/Aristophanes-translation-introduction-Oxford-Classics/dp/0192824090/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1539148938&sr=8-2&keywords=the+frogs+aristophanes
Need this exact version because other versions have different text. Payment is 5 USD through PayPal.
they had what i wanted.
when you're searching for obscure-ish stuff, other sites often don't have them.
TPB was often the only one who had a that research book, or college lecture series about medievalist literature.
like this bookis $80, and that's for just ONE book! that's not a well rounded education at all, you can't just read one book and think you got it covered.
most of these types of things are in the hundreds so buying them is just not feasible.
the pirate bay was the only one to supply these kinds of materials.
These versions have Greek on one side, English on the other. Unfortunately to get all 3 of the plays you will have to get several of the books, as they are not distributed nicely for you.
https://www.amazon.com/Sophocles-Electra-Oedipus-Tyrannus-Classical/dp/0674995570/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485144484&sr=8-1&keywords=loeb+classical+library+sophocles
https://www.amazon.com/Sophocles-Antigone-Trachis-Philoctetes-Classical/dp/0674995589/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1485144484&sr=8-2&keywords=loeb+classical+library+sophocles