>>3513349There was a better list posted on /lit/ a few months back but not in image form. Reposting it:
Here's a real Romans reading list. "Mandatory" authors are starred, but all are worth spending some time with. Vaguely chronological order within genres.
Epic:
Ennius - Annales (fragments)
*Lucretius - De Rerum Natura
*Virgil - *Eclogues, *Georgics, **Aeneid
*Ovid - **Metamorphoses
*Lucan - Pharsalia
Statius - Thebaid
Silius Italicus - Punica
Drama:
*Plautus - *Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, Amphitruo
*Terence - Andria, Hecyra, Phormio, *Adelphoe
Non-epic poetry:
*Catullus
*Horace - Epodes, Odes, *Satires/Sermons, Ars Poetica
Tibullus
Propertius
*Ovid - *Amores, *Heroides, *Ars Amatoria
*Juvenal - Satires
Statius - Silvae
Martial - epigrams
Prose fiction ("novels"):
Apocolocyntosis
Petronius - Satyricon
*Apuleius - Metamorphoses/Golden Ass
Rhetoric:
*Cicero - *In Catilinam 1 & 3, **Philippic 2, Pro Milone, Pro Caelio
(if interested in theory as well:
Rhetorica ad Herennium, Seneca the Elder's rhetoric handbook, Quintilian)
Historiography:
*Caesar - Comentarii
*Sallust - *Bellum Catilinae, Bellum Jugurthae
Livy - as much as you want / until you get bored
Res Gestae divi augusti
*Tacitus - Agricola, Historiae, *Germania, **Annales
Suetonius - 12 Caesars
Ammianus Marcellinus - again, just what you want
And I don't care much about philosophy, but if I did, it would go here. If it would really help to make one of those dumb charts, I guess I could.
