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Started by Suu, September 05, 2012, 10:13:43 PM

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September 05, 2012, 10:13:43 PM
They're making me read Livy. Again.

:hanging: :tyra: :walken: :crankey:

-Suu
Is paying penance for SOMETHING she did last semester. She knows it.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

The Good Reverend Roger

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September 05, 2012, 11:02:57 PM
Livy was my kinda guy.  He wrote everything down, and he wrote it DRY AS FUCK, knowing that millenia of students would be forced to read it forever.

None of this Tacitus-style "readability" shit for him, no sir.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

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September 06, 2012, 12:27:27 AM
Livy was just imitating the true master of the form, Thucydides.

And he knew exactly what he was doing.  He even tells you, he's writing "a book for all time".  Which is how long it feels like it might take to read it, after page 10 or so.

Suu

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September 06, 2012, 02:34:13 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 05, 2012, 11:02:57 PM
Livy was my kinda guy.  He wrote everything down, and he wrote it DRY AS FUCK, knowing that millenia of students would be forced to read it forever.

None of this Tacitus-style "readability" shit for him, no sir.

The man was a natural born troll about it, too.

"Well I need to cram 700 years of history with only about 250 years of written record to work from...I'll just make shit up. No one will know."

And no one DID know, until the 20th Century.  :argh!:
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Phox

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September 06, 2012, 04:43:56 AM
Could be worse. They could be making you read Suetonius. Without all the bits that made it into I, Claudius.

The Good Reverend Roger

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September 06, 2012, 01:44:54 PM
Quote from: Doktor D. Jennifer Phox on September 06, 2012, 04:43:56 AM
Could be worse. They could be making you read Suetonius. Without all the bits that made it into I, Claudius.

:|
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Suu

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September 06, 2012, 03:29:30 PM
Hey, I read "Twelve Caesars" in it's entirety last semester and enjoyed it. It was like a damn Roman rag magazine!
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."
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