/lit/ - Literature

Flip all the signs and you got it

Ramayana>Odyssey>Aeneid>Iliad

>>12394403
Have you guys read Ovid's The Metamorphoses?

>>12394405
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>>12394403
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>>12394427
Thebaid>Metamorphoses>Odyssey>Aeneid>Iliad>Heroides

>>12394403
obviously

>they think they can rank the classics
>can't read ancient languages
amicae_ludentes.simulacrum

>>12394998
>ideas, themes, and concepts can’t transcend language

>>12394998
every scholar ranks the iliad higher than the odyssey & homer higher than virgil though

>>12395024
>judges literature by what can easily be summarized
sry monoling-bro

>>12395025
I actually agree with the rankings, I just like reminding lit how fucking stupid and hubristic it is to do this

Like all three books are poetic masterpieces any human could spend a literal life studying. The idea that it matters to rank them and that people who literally can't even read them think their opinion matters always make me laugh

>>12394403
Silmarillion>Columbiad>Odyssey>Aenid>Metamorphoses>Illiad

>homer>virgil
>falling for german romanticist anti-romance propaganda in 2019

I like Odyssey.

>>12395044
you know homeric greek & latin?

>>12395089

Dunciad>all

>>12395089
>>12395101

>>12395095
Kai dh kai.
Quis se "doctor" vocet si linguas antiguas nescit?

For me, it's the Odyssey. Thinking about the Odyssey gets me so hot. Imagine Odysseus, trapped on Calypso's island as her stud for seven long years, every day forced into her bed under flickering torchlight to have hot sweaty divine sex with the golden goddess as between thrusts she whispers sweet promises into his ear offering to make him an immortal and he tries to resist being mindbroken while enjoying her soft skin and perfect figure and heavenly fragrance.

>>12395126
Based and popepilled

>>12395572
'Nisi', my man.

Also,
'Antiguas' isn't a word.

>>12394403
Everyone shits on the Aeneid, but it's bretty gud. Iliad is... boring.

>>12394403
I've only read the Odyssey so:

Odyssey > Iliad = Aeneid

>>12395701
people that rank odyssey and aeneid higher than iliad are retards that dont understand the philosophy/hidden teachings of iliad.

Iliad is the best of them because it features the Catalogue of Ships, the ultimate pleb filter.

>>12395729
people that rank odyssey and iliad higher than aeneid are retards that dont understand the philosophy/hidden teachings of aeneid.

>>12395745
Also, the Iliad provides geneology of every loving human in the Mediterranean, up to 5 generations. Pretty based book of lists

>>12395675
Also should be "doctorem".

>>12395729
because homer is not marketed /foreworded as a philosophical work you pseuds cant even notice it.

>>12395747
philosophers don't use aeneid,plato was before virgil's time but homer is cornerstone to his teaching

>>12395745
truth

>>12395089
i like odyssey too anon, very based and redpilled of you desu

>>12395745
based

>>12394403
Die Nibelungen>Odyssey>Illiad>Aeneid>Theogony

>>12395917
Fuck I can't believe I wrote the movie title instead of Nibelungenlied

Please laugh at me

>>12395917
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