What do you think of the Loeb Classical Library?
Magnificent, and too fucking expensive.
Picked up a used pair for cheap a while back, I like them a lot.
>>25218442I love them, I also am upset by their cost. They don't get cheaper for old second-hand ones either, they're all £25 or more. I have Homer's Illiad I & II, Greek Epic Fragments (the only ones I've actually used the Greek text of, as Homeric is the only Classical language I can read to any degree so far), Petronius' Satyricon which comes with a short work by Seneca, and Chariton's Callirhoe.
>>25218504>> Petronius' Satyricon which comes with a short work by Seneca, I have Daphnis and Chloe and it’s paired with some comic poet I can’t remember the name of. I think Nonnus was his name?
I want to get only the Latin texts I'm interested in. Having the whole collection is cool, but 500 books at 30 Euros a piece is a bit too much.
Do these have annotations/apparatus etc? It does my head in that the premium lines in Italy often have half-assed ones, if I'm spending hefty sums I don't intend to live near a computer at all times to google shit.
>>25218567Also LOL, if you guys are scoffing at the prices mentioned here, don't even look at the cost of a Meridiani/Bompiani classici/Einaudi millenni
>>25218442I am still missing a rare one but I'm having a blast!
They don't really stand up to academic rigor. They're still sometimes used as convenient references. If you're trying to learn from them, only some volumes are fitting, and you probably don't understand how to do it. They do tend to lack any critical apparatus. Still a cool set to have complete. I tend to pick some up when interested in a minor text.
>>25218578>published by harvard university press>They don't really stand up to academic rigor.ok
>>25218442Is picrel the owner?
Is there an online store in the EU that sells them used?
>>25218442I just bought one of the latin ones so I'll let you know when it gets here
I saw a disheveled, unwashed homless guy on the streets smoking a cigarette and he was wearing a Loeb Classical Library t shirt. It made me laugh so I looked it up and they don't sell merch anywhere, it must have been some promo item. I wonder where he got it
I don't really benefit from bilingual texts all that muchI'd rather have notes that explain in depth the language of difficult passages and a glossary
>>25218442they're neat but if your shelves look like this you may as well collect Funko pops
>>25218442i like them. it's fun to try to pick out the greek words
Whats like the cheapest one of these kinds of big book collections i can buy? I'd really like to give myself a Great Books education but I'm poor. And I don't want to hunt around for pdfs or figure out what to read next plus I'm liable to get distracted. I'd like to just unplug for a while and focus on a library.
>>25219144>And I don't want to hunt around for pdfsYou can download all the public domain loebs here. It's about half their library.https://ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/Doesn't help with the distraction stuff though
>>25219157Yeah. Shame I'm both poor and stupid
>>25218528I love Daphnis and Chloe, just cheaped out and got an Oxford World Classics copy when I read it, though when I get to Attic I will undoubtedly get myself a copy.
>>25219144If you want to buy something like this you'll have to get lucky at a book fair or garage sale. I think you'd be best off by just using an ereader, loading it up with a ton of everything you'd like to read, then removing internet access for a while.
>>25218442The best find you can make in a used book market. It’s so niche you can still find these being sold for a buck. You need some old classicist to have died though.
>>25219479so th brittanica great book series for 1000 isn't worth it?
>>25218442It's nice that there's a hobbyist friendly collection of translations of these classic works that's certified to be decent. I'll probably end up getting Pliny's Natural History and Galen's works eventually.>>25218578Loeb classical library is layman friendly by intention. Maybe the Teubner books are rigorous enough for your smart ass.
>>25218581>>25219635Neither of you are very schooled or intelligent.
>>25219677Correct. I'm amateur and have no desire to participate in academia as a profession. Discrediting Loeb for lacking what it never was meant to have is disingenious.
>>25219684Again, you are not very intelligent. You did not even read the post about which you are so mad.
>>25219687nta but you gotta stop. you're off topic. quit starting fights over nothing
How is Loeb pronounced?
>>25218570>Meridiani/Bompiani classici/Einaudi millenniAre these published by Italians
>>25219634Not unless you're rich as fuck and don't mind throwing away a grand
>>25219710Then I guess I'll never get the chance to have a full comprehensive reading in my life and I'll always be plugged into annoying internet voices i got bored of ten years ago
>>25219713You don't need to draw up grand plans for reading every book in existence, unless you're doing so in an attempt to postpone actually reading anything at all. Just go and pick up a copy of Homer or Sophocles or Plato for about 5p at the used book shop and start there.
>>25219744That's not the point. And I can't even find those books. And they are much more expensive.
>>25219746no they aren't. They're incredibly cheap and can be found online in about 2 seconds. In fact they can even be found online for free if you really can't afford one used paperback.
>>25219752Well not in my experience. I think your charity shops work different than my country.
>>25219753are you here for advice, or to make excuses to yourself for why you have never read anything?
loebs are funko pops for chuds
>>25219756Why can't you just accept that I have it different over here. I saw a thread on your charity shops and I got jealous. If you don't believe me or it frustrates you just drop it.
>>25219757>comparing plastic toys with books from some of the smartest people who ever lived
>>25219759what frustrates me is people like you who ask for advice then set up impossible criterion such that any and all advice is rejected. You've recentred the whole discussion around charity shops even though that was just one example of possible cheap books. If you don't have even a penny to your name though, I at least know you have a computer and time enough to fuck around on 4chan, so here:https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/meno.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n0-yjz1XjMOne of the foundational, short, works of western philosophical literature, and a straightforward lecture on it by an academic, found in a 2 second google search. That website actually has a lot of great stuff on there for free if you check the index. It would take you a very long time to work through all that but if you read just some of it you'd be a well read man.
>>25219775>ancient brown people who couldnt tell you how a battery works>the smartest
>>25219778I'm not going to do that anon. I can't do online reading.
>>25218578>academic rigoryou mean they don't nepotistically site a bunch of 75yo libtards? ok retard
>>25219707Like an ear-lobe. I'm English.
>>25219789Please be bait
>>25219708Yes these are our version of high quality editions. They're good to be fair, just insanely priced (60+) - granted we give way more importance to style and presentation than pretty much any other publisher.
>>25219707>>25220085I've always said Low-Ebb
>>25219451I read it phonetically because I was under the impression it would be a literal translation side by side and not the old timey 1600s George Thornely translation that not even Penguin classics would have used. It translates first sentence - “Polis Mytilene Lesbo estin kalle Kai megale” as something like “Mytilene was a Lesbian city of great renown and of large fortitude.”
>>25218567They have notations but they’re more focused on the linguistics of the text rather than on historical context.
>>25219707Like “Leeeb.” Here in Chicago there was an old timey serial killer with that name who went crazy and thought he was Nietzsche’s Superman and that is what the collection always reminds me of.
There’s a few anons here who either have the whole set themselves or have taken pictures of someone else’s. They usually show up in shelf threads.
>>25218603What happened to cute indie girls? I miss the '90s.
>>25218442I would go absolutely apeshit if I had to look at that wall for longer than a week.
>>25219757I almost bought a funko pop once. One of the most shameful things I've ever done. Luckily, I cancelled the order before my soul was irreparably damaged.
>>25220114>>25218570I recently bought the Einaudi edition of War and Peace from 1956, a hardcover box set.20€ on Vinted. People on there really don't know what they're selling.
>>25219759Just use an ereader you mopey faggot. It doesn't have to be connected to the internet.
>>25218603I don't get the joke.
>>25220663Lisa was a cutie. I have mixed feelings about the 90s, I was a teenager in the latter half.
>>25221340YOU SAY....
>>25218442$30 for a high quality hardcover is not that much. You just think they're expensive because you're collector-brained and want to consoom all of them to shelve like Funkos.
>>25220686You damaged your soul by even considering it. Pathetic!
