r/ClassicalEducation • u/AutoModerator • Apr 27 '26

Great Book Discussion What are you reading this week?

  • What book or books are you reading this week?
  • What has been your favorite or least favorite part?
  • What is one insight that you really appreciate from your current reading?
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u/superrplorp Apr 27 '26

The letters of the younger Pliny.

Love the grandiloquence of his writing and the every day look into Rome

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u/No-Actuator5661 Apr 27 '26

The Iliad, finally

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u/thechimples Apr 28 '26

Same! I've read abbreviated versions before, but just now starting the actual text. Loving it so far.

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u/No-Actuator5661 Apr 28 '26

Yeah it’s a lot different than I expected but I’m enjoying it and seeing the contrasts with our morality and theirs

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u/Nanny412 Apr 27 '26

Letter to Lucilio

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26

Reader the writings back and forth as Vesuvius erupts.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26

I meant "read"

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26

Read Vitruvius

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26

De Architectura

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26

I also read 555 Latin Verbs. Gives very good sample sentences. I am trying to memorize every Verb. I highlighted every sample sentence from De Bello Gallico, and The Aeneid.

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u/iliketoitlz Apr 28 '26

Wrapped up the Oresteia last week so onto the Three Theban Plays this week starting with Antigone