I'm going to jump start straight into the Greeks and Romans. I'm about to spend over £800 on:
Achilles Tatius Aeschylus Aesop Apuleius Ammianus Marcellinus Apollodorus Apollonius of Rhodes Appian Archilochos Aristophanes Aristotle Arrian Athenaeus Aulus Gellius Callimachus Cassius Dio Catullus Cicero Clement of Alexandria Claudian Demosthenes Dio Chrysostom Diodorus Siculus Diogenes Laërtius Dionysius of Halicarnassus Ennius Epictetus Euripides Frontinus Fronto Herodotus Hesiod Hippocrates Homer Horace Josephus Julius Caesar Juvenal Livy Longus Lucan Lucian Lucretius Manetho Marcus Aurelius Martial Nonnus Ovid Pausanias Petronius Pindar Plato Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Plotinus Plutarch Polybius Procopius Propertius Quintilian Quintus Curtius Rufus Quintus Smyrnaeus Sallust Sappho Seneca Sextus Empiricus Sidonius Silius Italicus Sophocles Statius Strabo Suetonius Tacitus Terence Tertullian Theocritus Theognis Thucydides Tibullus Varro Virgil Xenophon
Of all the classical literature that's currently in print in English translation, am I missing anything? I'm ignoring all the obscure stuff only Loeb publishes.
Vast majority will be in cheap paperbacks, mostly Oxford World Classics or Penguin Classics, but I'm eyeing The Landmark Series and Hackett's Complete Plato and Princeton's Complete Aristotle. Please let me know if there's definitive editions of any of the other works and authors so my final purchase and library is compact.
if you're planning to spend so much time on the ancients consider adding just one more year to your schedule and learn latin and greek first, read everything in the original languages
Gabriel Adams
> am I missing anything? Marcus Aurelius and Epicurus what I've noticed was missing
Jordan Kelly
you can get all of that for free you fucking mongoloid lib.gen.rus.ec archive.org
Ayden Gutierrez
the last digit of my reply is how many of these you'll actually read
For real though, none of those authors will receive anything for you buying those books. There is no reason to buy them. They're freely available.
Jayden Richardson
I know this is because I went through the entire list of Greek philosophers on Wikipedia and handpicked their works from these two site. Not everyone is available obviously but you would cut your losses by at least half if you give that a go first
Aiden Foster
fuck the capitalists charging money for shit in the public domain
Alexander Rodriguez
new translations aren't in the public domain
Landon Carter
>put effort to translate it >NOOOOOO you can't sell it
Tyler Robinson
all the english public domain versions seem to be incomplete, e.g. the thot conversations by Lucian are almost entirely omitted in "Loeb Classical Library" editions i've seen online.
Jackson Wilson
Only do that if you plan on leaving the books to your children.
Jeremiah Butler
I feel like lit nerds have some socratic boner about doing things purely for the sake of le goobnes, and forget the more patrician understandings that a true vitruvian artisan would keep near to his heart.
