Carlos Noreña Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Carlos Noreña

@PhiloCrocodile @miserabiliter @llewelyn_morgan @GeorgyKantor Lots of good recs here. Note also Andrew Feldherr, *After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History* (Blackwell, 2021).

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10. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS (Arundhati Roy) This one took a little time to get going -- a slow burn -- and the non-linear narrative can be disorienting (part of the point, of course), but wow, it builds to a sledgehammer finish.

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@JohnWake3 @mdlett @_ryanruby_ @GibsonRoyk @JeremiahCoogan @Woolf_Greg Huge range. From the city of Rome, probably c. 1,000,000, to lots of smaller cities of c. 5000, to nucleated settlements in the countryside that we might call "villages" (> 500). It was definitely a "primate" urban system (a few behemoths and a multitude of smaller "cities").

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@_ryanruby_ I think you would not enjoy Cicero's *De Officiis* ("On Duties")...

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If you haven't read much MacMullen, try his collection of essays, *Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary* (1990). It gives a good insight into his method and his arguments (including the rant against the placing of ancient historians in Classics departments). 7/11

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@josephinequinn @planet4589 Was ruling San Francisco not enough, Jo? Does your ambition know no bounds? Have you read Plutarch's *Caesar*?

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5. BELOVED (Toni Morrison) A very difficult read -- in several senses. Haunting, disorienting, nightmarish. When it all comes together at the end (insofar as it *does* come together: the novel destabilizes interpretation at every turn), it's *heavy*.

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Greg Woolf's 2022-23 Sather Lectures ("The Rhythms of Rome: Seasonality and Society in the Early Empire") kick off this week! Lecture 1: LIFE ON A TILTED PLANET Thursday, September 29, 7:00 PM (Chevron Auditorium, International House, UC Berkeley) https://t.co/xns73ikiFv

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@brittanyh753 Perhaps nothing wilder to the Greco-Roman imagination than the vast and forbidding abyss that was the Atlantic Ocean! Lots of texts discussed in D. Roller, * Through the Pillars of Herakles: Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic* (2006). Go oceanic!

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9. THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (Isabel Allende) This was my first exposure to Latin-American magical realism (I read it in college), and I still remember the profound feeling of being swept away into a dreamy world that was disconcertingly unfamiliar. Should re-read in Spanish!

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