(Part 2) Best products from r/classics

So by saying that you don't want the facing translation that you are specifically not looking for the Loeb version. I looked and Archive.org does not have an old critical edition from what I could find. This is the best I could find, but we all know that 1743 was long before a lot of good textual work for all of classical literature was done. Here is a modern critical edition for a surprisingly reasonable price, however.

This is the book on the Fayum portraits that I mentioned: The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt https://www.amazon.com/dp/050028217X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_s9FzDbVTZS8XF

Unfortunately, it’s ridiculously expensive on Amazon. Not sure why, because it’s still in print and like $25 at the bookshop near my house in Cairo. Maybe AUC Press doesn’t have a distributor in the US. Perhaps you can find it a university library.

Good luck with your work and research!

Aristotle's De Anima helped me in my work to create Mens Latina artificial intelligence in Latin language.

Whatever you do, don't use Wheelock.

If you'd like a class, do this: http://www.paideiainstitute.org/intensive_latin_and_greek_summer_2016

If you'd just like a book, use this:
https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia/dp/1585104205?ie=UTF8&keywords=familia%20romana&qid=1458311671&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Are you reading an annotated text or just straight Latin? If you don't already have a copy I highly recommend [Pharr's version](Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI (Latin Edition) (Bks. 1-6) (English and Latin Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865164215/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_RcStDb8RST3Z9) for its grammar notes!

Benner's Selections from Homer's Iliad would seem perfect for you. It has notes, vocab, and a short Homeric grammar at the end. Amazon link.

My intermediate year of Latin (second year) began with Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is the text we used. You'll start with maybe 3-5 lines per night, let's say, but by the end of the book you should be getting to full stanzas in the same time as it once took you a couplet or two. Eventually, you'll be able to do 100 lines+ per sitting. Of course, it's all about how responsible you are.

• Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Pars I: Familia Romana
  
• Wheelock's Latin

There's an edition published by Benediction Classics that is complete. It's 1008 pages long.

The same complete translation was also published by the Modern Library in one volume in 1975. You might be able to find a secondhand copy.

Both books are the 1859 revision by Clough of the so-called Dryden translation.

Get yourself a purple Virgil. Industry standard for students at your level.

Boatwright, Gargola, Lenski, and Talbert's The Romans: From Village to Empire is my textbook of choice for Roman history

The standard scholarly edition of the Greek text is still Max Wellmann's Pedianii Dioscuridis Anazabei De materia medica libri quinque (Weidmann, 1906–1914, reprinted in 1958, three volumes: 1, 2, 3). The most recent English translation I'm aware of is by Lily Beck published by Olms Verlag in 2017 (3rd edition). I know of no Greek-English bilingual edition other than the seventeenth-century edition by John Goodyer, published in 1934 by Robert Gunther.

Milman Parry's The Making of Homeric Verse (Oxford, 1971) and his student Albert Bates Lord's [The Singer of Tales*](https://www.amazon.com/Singer-Tales-Third-Hellenic-Studies/dp/0674975731/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=singer+of+tales&qid=1557622018&s=gateway&sr=8-1) (Harvard, 1960) (Holy shit! 3rd edition is coming out in October!) never cease to fascinate me. I think that they'd be even more interesting if I re-read them now, with an eye to hip-hop being a modern expression of a lot of the oral techniques that Parry and Lord identified in oral poets from Homer to the early 20th-century Balkans.

There is also the concept of revenge. Revenge comes about through means of either some form of injustice, or blind misunderstanding.

Blindness is a theme throughout all of them either literally or figuratively to what is believed versus what is real.

There are several essays written about Elizabethan revenge tragedies and classical revenge tragedies. Seneca wrote many revenge tragedies and he borrowed on the Greeks. Shakespeare in turn borrowed from Seneca even mentioning Seneca in Hamlet.

Look at this description of four Elizabethan tragedies: "Each of the four plays here subverts the genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while registering the strains of life in an increasingly fragile social hierarchy."

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Revenge-Tragedies-Revengers-Atheists/dp/0199540535

It is no coincidence that the themes are consistent with classical tragedies. So look at the moral questions of the individual vs. justice/the state in the context of a fragile society on the verge of collapse because of what the rulers are doing.

Hamlet fits within these plays very nicely. It is a tragedy concerning rulers, there is a context of war. There are themes of justice and fate, there are questions as to whether the main characters have redeeming qualities.

There is no vacuum here. This question has been looked at and redeveloped for centuries. You could ask about what are the themes that link Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, and the Spanish Tragedy.

You might consider looking at the essays that ask for comparisons between more modern tragedies and the classics. Remember that the Latin playwrights followed the Greek tradition and look broadly at concepts in tragedy or revenge tragedies.