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.
Why don't you just buy a few books at a time user? £800 is a lot of money to spend on books in a single buy.
Justin Russell
Has none of you heard of a library? Like wtf, why would you buy books when you can just drop by your local library and save a lot of money?
Thomas Bell
Yeah, that makes sense. Reading them online is a good option as well. I'm just saying that if op is adamant on buying them it would make sense to buy them a few at a time, instead of buying a huge amount of books that you might not even read.
William King
based OP keeping the book industry alive
Liam Thomas
ambitious lists like this never get completed. Do not spend all this at once.
Ian Nguyen
No Socrates and pre-Socrates?
Easton Martin
>No Socrates retard
Eli Russell
???
Socrates Plato Aristotle
pre-socratic philosophers
Christian Roberts
Why are you buying Manetho? Fucked up history of Egypt.
Luis Jenkins
Socrates didn't write anything down and OP listed Plato and Xenophon.
Eli James
Maybe a grammar book would make you smarter though
Henry Miller
>Socrates Retard alert
Jason Hughes
That doesn't mean his life and thought are irrelevant, same goes for pre-socratic philosophers.
I think you're missing out on properly understanding the fundamental principle of thought and the schools of thought that followed.
Where's Pythagoras on the list? Where's Zeno?
Jaxon Hernandez
>reading verbatim words literally
Bentley Long
Pythagoras didn't write anything down either you fucking mong.
Adam Thomas
Aren't you interested in the way the author thinks? I'm asking that question because influences are relevant
David Martinez
Have sex
Gavin Gomez
Imagine posting that stupidity thinking it’s remotely witty, funny or something not utterly retarded.
Lincoln Campbell
read the pythagorean sourcebook and library you pleb pythagoras still didnt write anything down for you to read
Jose Foster
Idiot that you are to post your plans on a public imageboard. Alexa is watching you at all times. Since you posted this the sell-bots on all websites are going to subtly raise the prices of these authors' books so that you spend hundred liras more. They will also increase their shipping time by days or two by altering the routing network in small ways to lower your expectations for standard and economy class shipping. You've single-handedly made online shipping slightly more unpleasant for everyone using it this summer.
Brandon Johnson
>He purchases books which are free to the public Shiggy
Zachary Brown
If you love to own and re-read books, then why not read the books at the library first? If you do this OP you can buy the ones you actually care about after you've read them.
Lincoln Garcia
Literally all of it is irrelevant once you read the bible
Josiah Wright
Basically you just want to read books without thought and call me a pleb
