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nuclearshill gau/cho  1yr ago (text post) 172 thread views #185806

Weekly “what are you reading thread #13

To discuss your weekly readings of books, papers and texbooks.

I read 20 pages of Paradise Lost this week as I’m more focused on the bookclub reading.

Interesting video about the Devil. It talks about Paradise Lost and Faust.

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Still reading SPQR (I'm slow), up to the late years of the Senate.

Kinda wild how lean the early Roman Republic really was in terms of services. Apparently they didn't even really have a police force so once political violence started breaking out there was nothing really to stop it. You could "sway" an election by hiring some mercenaries/thugs to just murder the opposition.

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I'm not a history dweeb, but wasn't this shit happening even more often in the late Roman republic?

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Ah, I phrased that terribly. You're right, I'm talking about the later years of the Republic, but was thinking "early" in terms of overall Roman history.

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I loved that book. Mary Beard goes beyond the “consul x and emperor y did this” and gets into details of daily life of Roman Citizens using ancient sources combined with archeological evidence.

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Yeah she's been great so far.

Do you have any recommendations for similar style books of other time periods?

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“Carthage must be destroyed” a book about the punic wars. It gets into the history of Carthage and has chapters on Carthaginian society.

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By Richard Miles?

thanks bb, added to my collection!

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Yes, that one

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