Latin & Greek: Selections
So! It looks like Everyone Loves Ovid, which is not entirely surprising, so I'll be picking up with his Ars Amatoria pretty soon. (I have the first twenty lines or so translated already in a notebook somewhere, courtesy of some very long flights to and from Sweden, but I'll just restart from scratch to get into the swing of things.) Everyone also loves Pliny, so I'll be working out a book of his to poke at; that'll go slowly and awkwardly, given the lack of notes--unless I just try to do the start of the book on land animals, since I have notes for the first few sections of that--but it gives me one prose and one poetry source, which feels like a good balance to me.
There was a lot less enthusiasm for anything in Greek, so I'm going to start with a papyrus transcription someone sent me, and then re-evaluate after that. I desperately need the Greek practice, but I do at least get some (god damn Aristotle) in the philosophy reading group, so there's that.
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There was a lot less enthusiasm for anything in Greek, so I'm going to start with a papyrus transcription someone sent me, and then re-evaluate after that. I desperately need the Greek practice, but I do at least get some (god damn Aristotle) in the philosophy reading group, so there's that.
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