They're making me read Livy. Again.
:hanging: :tyra: :walken: :crankey:
-Suu
Is paying penance for SOMETHING she did last semester. She knows it.
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.
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.
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!:
Could be worse. They could be making you read Suetonius. Without all the bits that made it into I, Claudius.
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.
:|
Hey, I read "Twelve Caesars" in it's entirety last semester and enjoyed it. It was like a damn Roman rag magazine!