Western Canon Starter Kit: The Romans!

Belatedly, sorry! The translators mentioned:
Horace Gregory for Ovid
Allen Mandelbaum for Virgil

[@InsertLiteraryPunHere]

This is one of the best series on booktube, thank you!

[@prczek02]

Works mentioned (for anyone who doesn't have time to watch the video): - Virgil: The Aeneid (translated by Allen Mandelbaum) - Ovid: The Metamorphoses (tr. by Horace Gregory) (+ poetry of Propertius, Catullus, Horace → Penguin Classics series of multiple translations; Livy - historian)

[@lindseyreads5450]

Added these books to my ever growing tbr. I recently got through the Bible books you recommended and The Iliad. I found an edition I liked of the Odyssey the other day. Just when I thought I was relatively caught up... haha

[@EpicoNubletto]

Can't wait for the next episode!

[@gemma2275]

Amazing episode of Steve Show as always.

[@cheddarcheese5476]

This series is amazing!

[@marcusmusings]

Read them both and love them!

[@simonagree4070]

Huh, OK. I found Ovid, but translated by Mandelbaum, for $1.50, so I'll work with that. It seems to be relatively smooth sailing. Anyway, it will be interesting later to compare with the Gregory translation (and also with the Mandelbaum translation of Virgil).

[@KathleenAnnBooks]

Thanks to you and these videos, Elena and I are doing a buddy read of the Bible books you suggested. Maybe we will move on to the Romans next?

[@lilliannieswender266]

I find the works of Seneca to be fascinating.

[@saintdonoghue]

So do I - but this is THE BASICS! No Seneca, no Tacitus, no Plautus, no Cicero - just the basics!

[@lilliannieswender266]

ok, back to basics!

[@lilliannieswender266]

ok, back to the basics! :)

[@Britt32193]

I find the Romans to be the most interesting

[@elenamakridina8196]

Thank you:)

[@elenamakridina8196]

Did I mishear you or did you actually apologize for the longevity of the books? We asked for it:) Don't pull your punches:)

[@Angel666Anne]

Hi Steve, I'm working my way through your Western Canon starter kit and it's great so far. Any chance you could put it in a playlist? I'm struggling to find them all in your video catalogue as they're not numbered and I want to make sure I'm not missing any!

[@Architect-jg8cn]

Steve, you read a bit faster than me, I think. :-D Do you consider Adler's Great Books of the Western World a good, more comprehensive list? I'm using this as my base and supplementing with architecture (my profession) and additional philosophy. Thanks, Andrew

[@wcropp1]

I'm not able to speak for Steve, but I'd say it's definitely a good start. People may take issue with some of the more contemporary works, and it doesn't contain everything, but most of the essentials are there. There is an updated version that expands upon the initial list as well, with a little more added from the 19th/20th centuries.

[@hellebartelsen8208]

I didn't catch the name of the Virgil translator you recommended?

[@colemankimbrough4718]

Steve, have you read John Dryden's translation of the Aeneid?

[@saintdonoghue]

Read it! I ghost-WROTE it!

[@stretmediq]

Did Aeneas really invent the pizza 🍕or just the open face sandwich 🥪 and is there really any meaningful difference between the two? 🤔

[@seanodonnell3683]

"What have the Romans ever given us?"

[@saintdonoghue]

Hah! You're entirely right: that's required viewing!

[@betweenbook]

What?!1!? You are talking about the Romans without mentioning the Romans? In church they always said it like "let's read in the Romans..." and they did not open up Ovid. But, then again - maybe that is what is coming next(Acts 22:25)?

[@TheUnwir3DRobot]

Everyone should read the bible.

[@mothman84]

Just to counterbalance that pronouncement, everyone should _not_ read the Bible.

[@Gary_M]

So would you say the Romans invented pop culture?

[@Alan-wd7wv]

I'm thought this video was going to be about artillery :(