Also ... I am back again to say this. I am not really sure when the internet lines will be cut off again here in Myanmar. The military is trying to make the new cyber law like mainland China and a lot of things are happening right now. I just want to say I am very glad that I found your channel and you inspire me a lot to improve myself. Thank you Emma. I hope I can be there when you upload your next video.
valeria g Spread awareness please ... only if you want to .. of course. You can look for #WhatishappeninginMyanmar #SaveMyanmar #RejectTheMilitaryCoup #SayNoToDictatorship #RespetOurVotes and so on in twitter. It has been 10 days since February 1 and we all are protesting, doing CDM and stuffs but our president Win Myint, Aung San Suu Kyi and others are still arrested. People are too tired from Covid from the start and now this. I guess our country is just really unlucky ... Idk. But if you support us in any ways, it will be the big help 💕
@pHo_O Hi I'm from India, Manipur which shares border with Myanmar... Hope everything comes back to normal soon... Democracy will come back... Stay strong n keep fighting...
I would looove to get into ancient Egyptian history and literature! When you feel ready to recommend some of that, I’m sure we would all be here for it :)
Hi from Greece! Thanks for a wonderful vid Emma, I fully recommend reading Mary Renault if you're into Anc. Greece and don't want to read the main sources. She brings the ancient world to life and stays true to facts and makes you fall in love with her characters at the same time. 100% recommend
such impeccable timing with this video, just started (this week) reading the iliad and trojan women, and im reading about 10 other greek tragedies for a course this semester! nice to have some other recs to explore alongside the ones ill already be reading :)
Ιm greek with a BA in History and Archaeology let me tell you how odd Erasmian accent and English translation of Greek names sounds that I have yo double to double check names that I've known and studied for many years....we pronounce everything in modern greek for various reasons (preserving the national narrative is one.of them).
It amazes me how much you remember about books! I can hardly remember books I’ve read sometimes.. but you’re here naming all of these hard to pronounce names and remembering the plots... so cool!
i love u emma!! you’ve got me through so much! and an emma upload is just what i needed. this past month has been ROUGH so thank you so much for bringing the positivity and passion for books i need in my life! 🤍
I remember when I was taking classes for my Theater degree we had to read Agamemnon by Aeschylus and I did an entire paper on Cassandra's monologue. I loved it. I also greatly recommend reading Lysistrata by Aristophanes and The Bacchae by Euripedes. They're both comedies.
Please, please do a video about the history of Greece or its mithology. Perhaps it is a lot to talk about in one video, but I just I love your voice and the way you explain things 💞 Thank you so much!
Hi Emma! I would love more parts to this as I'm trying to get into ancient works more. I just started listening to The Illiad and I have If Not, Winter coming in the mail! I would also love to know more about ancient Egypt! I think it's underappreciated and represented. In general though, I would love to hear more recs about all!
For retellings of the Greek myths, I would *highly* recommend Stephen Fry's _Mythos,_ _Heroes,_ and _Troy._ The last is coming out in June. For retellings on RU-vid, try this playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLMZ04s0SU1gle12rlpX2q7nt_9Ee1c7rX
I really enjoyed this video! But the part I had to watch again and again was when you kept stopping because of the background noise and said, "Zeus is getting angry!" LOL 😂
Great stuff! I am reading Livy now, for the first time. My favorite Greek Play is Euripides Medea. She's a force of Nature, implacable; but you can understand her situation and how badly she has been treated; and how lightly her danger was appreciated by Jason.
Love this! I have the pleasure of teaching ancient Greece and Rome! Have you read the Histories by Herodotus? He is known as the father of History and he writes History in such an enjoyable way which reads like an epic!
I read The Silence of The Girls a few weeks ago, and God. The writing. I've recently gotten into annotating ever since reading The Secret History, but I've never underlined entire paragraphs like this before. And so many of those paragraphs just left me so speechless that I couldn't even write down my thoughts after underlining them :") Also I love how she characterizes Briseis. She was *so real*, I cannot. Considering her time and age, the war that was going on, the things she had to face, she was so, so strong. Obviously she was scared and kept quiet a lot of the times but she never forgot. She never forgot what she suffered, or what her people suffered, or her brothers or the other women. From start to end I was rooting for her and she did NOT disappoint, stayed true to how she felt when her city was first sacked even by the end of the story.
A very educational vlog. Hey you should check out Indic Literature, particularly The Mahābhārata, the longest epic poem ever written, roughly eight times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. The Mahabharata is the very Book of Life: in its variety, majesty, and, also in its violence and tragedy. It has been said that nothing exists that cannot be found within the pages of this awesome epic poem-story. Right after America first tested a prototype atom bomb in a New Mexico desert, Oppenheimer, the architect of America's secretive bomb project, is believed to have quoted a line from the Mahabharata (more specifically from the Bhagavad Gita, the sixth book in the Mahabharata manuscript): "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." The Indic literature had quite an influence on America's Transcendentalist (literary) movement, & the Beat (literary) movement, and also on WB Yeats, Octavio Paz, and Jorge L Borges, to cite just a few.
Ha Ha SophoPlease Read This😂😂😂 I don't think I could ever sit in a study group of or table of smart people like yourself and others but that was a cool joke. Semi Dad Joke all fun though. Trying to gather more books to learn more and read am glad I found this video. Thank you
Re: Plutarch, its worth noting that Plutarch wrote his biographies as comparisons between notable greeks and romans. B&N has an addition which keeps the pairing of the lives, Alexander and Ceasar are paired together, and for many others he also wrote a short chapter outlinining the differences between the greeks and romans he is writing on.
Thank you for this, I love Ancient Classics (though I don't know many Egyptians myths retellings, I would be very interested !). I would recommend all of Natalie Haynes' books, they're amaaazing. As well as Stephen Fry's Mythos trilogy (both author actually read out loud their books on Audible and it's amazing). A big favourite also is Circe by Madeline Miller.
It's my first time on this channel and the first thing I see is this list of recommendations omg thank you!!! I purchased the cheap ones on amazon lol Madeline Miller really drew me in to this rabbit hole of ancient greek and I'm loving it! I'm also looking forward to The Silence of the Girls and A Thousand Ships although I'm kinda afraid that I would hate Achilles in those retellings >.< Anyhoo excited to read your recommendations! Will go over your other videos asap :)
hi emma!!! i have most of these on my tbr i am sooo excited!! And also i have a rec for you because i don't know if you know the existence of these texts but during the in between of ww1 and ww2 french writers retold and modernized ancient myths and used them to explain the uncertainity of the moment they were living. Jean Cocteau and Girandoux were the masters of this "genre", i've read la guerre de troie n'aura pas lieu by Girandoux and found it fascinating (retelling of the illiad). And La Machine infernale (retelling of oedipus) by Cocteau is also a good one!
Goodness, the people outside really didn't want you talking about the prophecy haha! Nice recommendations; I actually just finished Lives of the Caesars and found it immensely entertaining.
I love all these recommendations 💗 . Literally, Emma you are the one who encouraged me to read classics and I am grateful for that. I love all your videos 😍❣❤
I am always so intimidated by Greek classics.. no idea why... you make it all sound so readable and interesting 🖤. I really want to get into it now. But no idea where to start!
My favourite modern book has to be 'Memoirs of Hadrian' by Maguerite Yourcenor. Recently picked up 'On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian (Penguin Classics) and that is excellent for a wide coverage of many Greek / Roman historians. Best book is probably is Twelve Caesars by Seutonius but there are others in a similar vein. Enjoyable video as ever
I absolutely love this recs room series. I've been looking for ways to start reading and where to start, I'm basically starting over because I haven't read a not textbook since grade school. I think a recs room for many different genres would be so fun💚💚💚
Would love to add Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie to the list! It’s a modern Antigone retelling about nation and racism and faith and family and terrorism - absolutely fascinating conceptually, what she does with this story is absolutely beautiful and terrifying! We read it for a class that was all about how novels complicate the concept of national identity!
I highly recommend Dominion by Tom Holland, I think you’ll enjoy it as much as I have ☺️ good review, I love Plutarch but I prefer Plato :-) 😍 your mind is beautiful btw
god i love the Oresteia (Anne Carson's version) and I'm currently making my way through the Bacchae! Prometheus Unbound (and Bound) have also been sitting on my TBR... I also love and recommend Sophocles' Electra and Euripides' Medea!
I am honestly not sure if modern people should read ancient classics from antiquity. Some because of their content but another thing is context which isnt rly there anymore since antiquity is obviously long gone. Loved the video tho
i love these recs! I haven't read any ancient greek or roman classics but I've always been interested, so i'm excited to get into some of these books ^^
While I don't own your edition of Plato's The Symposium, in my edition there is definitely a woman philosopher present at the symposium - Diotima - who gives her own speech on love.
Thank you for this video. I read some ancient classics in high school and college ,but it wasn't a lot , and I've been interested in checking more out.
Hello Emma!!! I would love to add on this great list another fantastic book and one of my personal favourites: "The golden fleece" or "Hercules my shipmate" by the famous British historian and poet Robert Graves. I am dead sure you will worship this one! Keep up the good work!!