/lit/ - Literature

>>17902793
>>17903133
They pale in comparison to the titanic sculptures of Western antiquity.

>According to the Roman historian Livy, the Roman general Aemilius Paullus (the victor over Macedon) saw the statue and "was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person", while the 1st-century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.

>>16750938
>conjures a lightning flash by snapping his finger
>all three turn to dust on the spot
Nothing personell kid.

Who are some Greek writers that you like that don't get mentioned anywhere near enough as they should, and have had an influence. Like Pyrrho or Theocritus. But it can be a modern or ancient Greek.

Also
>tfw you will never lay eyes on the statue of Zeus at Olympia

>According to the Roman historian Livy, the Roman general Aemilius Paulus (the victor over Macedon) saw the statue and "was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person,"[9] while the 1st-century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.