Classicism


Phèdre
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Iliad
Tartuffe
The Republic
The Odyssey
Glorious Exploits
The Latinist
Don Juan
Le Cid
The Princesse de Clèves
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
Women & Power: A Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us look one another in the face. We are Hyperboreans—we know well enough how much out of the way we live. 'Neither by land nor sea shalt thou find the road to the Hyperboreans': Pindar already knew that of us. Beyond the North, beyond the ice, beyond death—our life, our happiness.... We have discovered happiness, we know the road, we have found the exit out of whole millennia of labyrinth. Who else has found it? Modern man perhaps? 'I know not which way to turn; I am everything that knows no ...more
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

Sophocles
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man has seen the light, this is next best by far, that all speed he should go thither, whence he hath come.
Sophocles

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