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 :)
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!
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 :)
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.
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.
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 😂
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!
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💚💚💚
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.
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.
I was a Classics major and teach Latin now. I adored this video- pleeeease make more like this! I really liked the variety of types of books that you chose. Thank you!
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 😍❣❤
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!
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 :)
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 ^^
Hey Emma! Thank you for this video and yes, I would absolutely love to have more videos on ancient classics. Please make other videos on this topic whenever you feel like! 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.
I could literally listen to you talk about Classics forever please do more if you have more to say!! My face when I saw you uploaded this and I commented asking for a video like this like literally a week or two ago 😳
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.
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.
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 RUclips, try this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLMZ04s0SU1gle12rlpX2q7nt_9Ee1c7rX
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).
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!
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 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!
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.
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!!
Loved this video. I would highly recommend A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes if you have not read it as a female interpretation of The Trojan War. I have a really d copy of Prometheus Unbound that I am yet to read. The edition is about 80 years old. Will also be reading some of your other recommendations. I would love to see a classical focus on Egypt. It is an area that I am interested in but as of yet not studies or read much.
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!
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!
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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.
I am so sorry about what is happening, what can I do to help?
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 stay strong!!!
@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...
hi I'm from mainland China X we actually can still go on youtube and stuff if we use vpn. but yes it's messy...
Hello from Greece! It makes me so happy that people still appreciate ancient classics ♡
i have been really trying to expand into classics, you literally post videos at the best times
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 :)
the book of the dead! an essential
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!
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 :)
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 have never been this early lol but this is a great way to start my morning
Yes yes yes - as a classics student myself just gotta say I am super excited to watch this
We're all been small pawns in Zeus' "let's torture humans" game in 2020 smh
fr tho 💀
Apollo failed real hard tho
who offended Apollo
I am absolutely in love with your videos, and I laughed out loud at the: "Sopho-please read this" joke!!
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.
You're so articulate and enthusiastic, and your demeanor and smile are just so demure and charming. Can't get enough of your vids, thanks!
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.
just wanted to say that this is my comfort video for some reason... i beg you to make more!!
Please do more, I am incredibly keen on classics and the way you talk about them is truly beautiful.
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 😂
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!
I would love a part 2! You made me wanna get into classical studies and I love hearing your recs :)
Sopho-please-read-this made me giggle. Great video! :)
"Murder and bad times" is basically the motto of Greek tragedy.
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!
I've been trying to read more mythological retellings - currently, I'm reading The Witch's Heart (Norse mythology) - thanks for posting this!❤
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💚💚💚
thank you so much!! I have so many planned I can't wait to get to them!
I have catalogued some of these classics in the library I work in. Thank you for giving an outline of each book.
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.
I’ve been trying to get into classics, I have a lot of classics but I’ve not read them yet. Thank you for making amazing videos at the right time. 😊
this is the best way to start my day.
thank you so much! I've always wanted to read more greek classics.
Have always loved the poems of Catullus. Really enjoyed this, have always loved the Classics ever since school.
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.
I was a Classics major and teach Latin now. I adored this video- pleeeease make more like this! I really liked the variety of types of books that you chose. Thank you!
AH that is amazing! Thank you so much and yes I would adore making more
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 really like this genre and hope to read more about it in the future :) thanks for the recommendations
Holy Hephaestus!!!!!!! This video is god sent, have been looking for ancient classic recs for the longest tiiime.
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!
Yay! I was watching the Tolstoy vlog by second time again, happy we have a new video from you
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 :)
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 ^^
Hey Emma! Thank you for this video and yes, I would absolutely love to have more videos on ancient classics. Please make other videos on this topic whenever you feel like! 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.
I could literally listen to you talk about Classics forever please do more if you have more to say!! My face when I saw you uploaded this and I commented asking for a video like this like literally a week or two ago 😳
Just read Julius Caesar today! What a great time to delve deeper into ancient classics! Thank you for the suggestions!
Yesss, more greek to love! I read If Not, Winter because of you and i loved it beyond measure.
Omg been waiting for so long for you to talk about this topic 🤠
Recently i discover your channel and am addicted already. Also my love for books is growing because of your videos❣️❣️❣️❣️
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.
Would absolutely love more videos like this! ❤️
you're the best part of my morning routine!!
Hi
Love your channel 💕
You make me wanna read more and more classics/mythology/tragedies 🤓😁
OMG! I was waiting for this the whole time 💕 Luv you Emma
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.
Love this video and I am looking forward to seeing more videos like this please stay safe love from your number one Australia fan John
Whenever I want something to ready... you have a related video lol
Yes! Do you have any tips for reading them I have the odyssey but I'm nervous to read it because we'll it's ancient Greek poetry 😂
me with the iliad
I would suggest listening to an audio version. That is, after all, how it was originally experienced.
@@michaelsommers2356 wow thank you! i never actually thought about it that way.
I recommend the Paul Roche translations of Greek drama, for those looking for an easily readable translation.
I do really hope you will make a part 2 someday 🌞 ciao bella Emma! 🖤
So glad to see Wolf's Cassandra there. My favourite retelling of a classical subject.
Knowledgeable videos love her for loving books and she really inspired me to read more books
I looooove this so much!!!!! Can`t wait to see the next episode! :)
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 RUclips, try this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLMZ04s0SU1gle12rlpX2q7nt_9Ee1c7rX
Having a dreadful day and your videos help. Thank you.
love this list - only read the Shakespeare and 2/3 of the Theban plays so lots to catch up on, especially since I'm in the Greek camp as well...
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).
Nothing is more heavy metal than ancient literature! 🤘🤘
I love your book recs !!
Ps: I luv your voice as well
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!
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 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!
They are readable and interesting! I started with the Iliad recently and I'm really liking it (I haven't finished yet)
@@HolasoyMai oooo nice!
AH! Part 2, please. I think Egypt and Rome, (and more Greece :P ) would be interesting to see.
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.
I started reading the odyssey with my friend two days ago, so this is well timed haha
ILY EMMA!!! My favorite is The Oresteia but Julius Caesar comes close too!!! ❤
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!!
My favorite subject! This is exactly what I needed today 🤓
I’m a classics grad working in a city career and this video just makes me wanna give it all up and do a classics PhD 🥺
Great recommendations! I've read julius caesar and omg it's so good!
The 6 part, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is also quite good.
WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE MORE PARTS❤
Iliad and odyssey are my favorites
watching this during chem class
watching during trig AHAHAH
This video was so nice! And you look stunning!!! 💫⭐
great video, i want to read all of these now! :)
Definitely adding some to my tbr!
I love all kinds of recs from you 🥰
Currently I’m reading The Metamorphoses by Ovid. Very good so far.
Please do Egypt
Would LOVE an ancient Egypt part 2
ahhh i'm so excited about this can't wait to watch!!!
"Cesar gets pretty cancelled." 🤣🤣🤣
I would love to get into Ancient Egypt! I've always been interested in it, I just don't know where to start
I really enjoyed The Silence of the Girls! ☺️
Just in time! I love your videos especially when they are recommendations
thank you so much ❤️ I will now watch the video in bed... Goodnight 😊
Loved this video. I would highly recommend A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes if you have not read it as a female interpretation of The Trojan War. I have a really d copy of Prometheus Unbound that I am yet to read. The edition is about 80 years old. Will also be reading some of your other recommendations. I would love to see a classical focus on Egypt. It is an area that I am interested in but as of yet not studies or read much.
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'm pretty patchy on ancient classics; thanks for this!
I will be shifting into classics, right after I finish the books that I'm reading rn. Anyway I got my pen paper to jut down your recommendations!
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!
your voice is really calming
Enjoyed this so much!