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Wednesday, 12 June 2013

45 Lost Books



-          A luxury edition of the Iliad, prepared by Aristotle. Alexander the Great took it with him on all of his travels. 

-          Aethiopis and Sack of Troy, by Arctinus of Miletus. A continuation of the Iliad.

-          Homer’s Margites

-          Ctesibius’ Memorabilia. A compilation of his research.

-          On Mechanical Toys and Diversions (Automatopoeica), by Philo of Byzantium

-          On the Ocean, by Pytheas of Massalia

-          An account of Alexander’s expedition, by Callisthenes

-          Origins (Origines), a history of Rome, by Cato the Elder. The first prose history in Latin. 

-          Rerum memoria dignarum libri, an encyclopaedic work by Verrius Flaccus.

-          De vita sua, by Augustus

-          Historical Sketches, by Strabo 

-          History of Babylonia (Babyloniaca), by Berossus. Written ca. 290-278 BC, using ancient Babylonian texts. 

-          On Rome (Roma), in 4 parts: Roman Manners and Customs, The Roman Year, The Roman Festivals & Roman Dress by Suetonius.

-          Iter ('The Journey') by  Julius Caesar. It was composed during a trip from Rome to Spain (46 BC).

-          Pamphilus of Alexandria’s comprehensive lexicon in 95 books of foreign or obscure words.

-           De Bibliotecis, by Marcus Terentius Varro
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-          Medea, by Ovid
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-          Republic, by Zeno of Citium

-          An Etruscan dictionary & an Etruscan history, by Claudius

-          A Carthaginian history, by Claudius

-          Affairs in Asia, Affairs in Europe & On the Erythraean Sea, by Agatharchides

-          Geographica, by Eratosthenes
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-          The Lives of Scipio Africanus, Augustus, Claudius and Nero, by Plutarch 

-          History of Constantine the Great, by Praxagoras

-          History of the German Wars & History of his Times, by Pliny the Elder

-          Catalogue of Women, by Hesiod 

-          Persica & Indica, by Ctesias. A history of Assyria, Persia and India.

-          On the Causes of Corrupted Eloquence, by Quintilian

-          De arte alea (a book on dice games), by Claudius

-          Critical Signs Used in Books, by Suetonius

-          Women Swimming (Kolymbôsai), by Alcman 

-          Euclid’s Book of Fallacies (Pseudaria)

-          Frying-Pan Men, by Aristophanes 

-          Men Who See Everything, by Eubulus 

-          Women Sailing Across the Sea,  by Alexis 

-          De jaculatione equestri, by Pliny the Elder 

      Titanomachy
  

Friday, 4 January 2013

50 Books You Should Read



Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Domain) by Alain-Fournier
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Treasure Island by Robert L. Stevenson
Kidnapped & Catriona by Robert L. Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert L. Stevenson
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Stories by Augusto Monterroso
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Mister President by Miguel Ángel Asturias
War of Time by Alejo Carpentier
A World for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
Odes by John Keats
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart by Chrétien de Troyes
Lais by Marie de France
The Heptameron by Marguerite of Navarre
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Disdain with Disdain by Agustín Moreto
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Odyssey by Homer
The Iliad by Homer
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes