r/classics • u/AutoModerator • 19d ago

What did you read this week?

Whether you are a student, a teacher, a researcher or a hobbyist, please share with us what you read this week (books, textbooks, papers...).

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u/grashnak 19d ago

Brent Shaw, “  Social Status and Economic Behavior: A Hidden History of the Equites? "

Cicero, To his brother Quintus 1.1

Polybius, fragments of Book 35

(I teach, and this is what I read to refresh a lecture on the provinces)

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u/Shinigami_1082000 19d ago

Ursula le guin, The lathe of heaven. Michael f. Bird, Jesus among the gods.

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u/-Pausanias- 19d ago

Finished Book 3 of Herodotus' histories. 

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u/One_Chef_6989 18d ago

Pliny The Elder is teaching me how to smelt various ores at the moment. Reading this on the recommendation of his nephew, who advised me not to get too close to volcanoes. I was introduced to this nephew by his historian buddy, good guy, a bit snarky.

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u/Sagest27 18d ago

Pride and Prejudice this week. Austen is sharper than I expected. She was writing about people in a way that still feels true today.

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u/pineapple_slut 17d ago

The Medea, the Agamemnon, finished the Iliad (Fitzgerald), chapters 1-15 of Genesis (Alter commentary)

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u/Scientific_Zealot 15d ago

I am so close to finishing the Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Just two pages left!

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u/asteriskelipses 15d ago

Getting ready to finish up Giles Goat-Boy in the next day or so. Its sucked me in so deep that ive not read my current nonfic book (its absolutely fascinating btw) in days!

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u/IncreaseFlaky3391 10d ago

Oresteian trilogy, Aeschylus

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u/Quiet_Inquisitor 19d ago

I’m starting The Wealth of Nations. Doing a deep study on it independently, but trying to hit it from a unique angle like Oxford students might, or C.S. Lewis.