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I remember a while ago you recommended Memoirs of Hadrian on this blog. Finally I got around to reading it, and I just wanted to say thank you. I probably would have never found it otherwise, and it really helped me during a difficult time. I was wondering whether you had an recommendations for good history books on Hadrian, or that period of the Rome empire? in honour of Hadrian’s birthday today, I am sharing my collection of related essays, novels, archaeological research, and other literature—even a poem reading! I have amassed over the years. available here.
please think of this as continuing Hadrian’s wish to immortalise Antinous, and their love for each other…
odd platform to ask such a question, but does anyone have recommendations for (reputable) academic articles & other works that discusses the monstrous feminine in antiquity? xx
the best lines from this research article I had to read:
- “or in the late-summer bloom of academic narcissism, a postmodern literary critic.”
- “all one can do is weep”
- “the same mixture of horror and pride that a father might feel upon learning that his 14 year old son has got a classmate with child”
- “Huh?”
- “of course Latin historians frequently failed to tell the truth”
- “squalls of nonsense from France”
- “we can scream in mirth at the feebleness of the criteria”
- “the study of Latin prose authors was traditionally regarded as the province of dullards”
- “ ‘it wants figs!’ ”
- “a little innocent rhetorical gussying”
- “the result is like the diary of a teenager: riveting only to its creator, repellent to others, and illuminating to none”
- “the ecstasy of parsing!”
- “to John Henderson the Annals were - well, as usual with John Henderson, who can tell?”
- “this sad stuff”
- “the Annales Maximi, about which controversy will never cease”
- “as perverse as it would be to read the New York Times as if it were a novel by John Grisham”
- even the title itself, “historians without history: against roman historiography” (keep in mind that this article is found in a compilation called “the roman historians”, as if the overall salt content of the writing was not already high enough)