Loeb Classical Library

The Homeric hymns.

The third thing I would recommend, so third out of like four, would be this work, and this is one of the Loeb Classical Library book, but this one's called Greek Epic Fragments.

This one is extremely helpful, especially if you're gonna read the Iliad and the Odyssey.

I didn't know this until I read Greek Epic Fragments, but the Iliad and the Odyssey are part of a Trojan epic cycle made of eight works.

From the War Against Jugurtha by Sallust.

All translations are adapted from the Loeb Classical Library.

Here was a model of manliness forged on the battlefield.

Given the military might of ancient Rome, it is surely unsurprising that Romans often associated masculinity with courage in battle.

Um, but I'm using it as a way to connect us to antiquity and to give you specifically insight into how some of these gemstones might have been viewed back in the day.

Uh, I would say this is a really important resource in particular, which is why I find it so frustrating [laughs] that when I'm looking up opal and Pliny, I'm directed to Loeb Classical Library and their paywall.

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Yeah.

Well, until next time.

We will of course have s- some resources for you in the description, but not the Loeb Classical Library, because we're not trying to have-

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