/lit/ - Literature

>>22061542
>are there any anons learning two languages at the same time?
yeah. ancient Greek and modern French. I have been studying Latin for ~4 years and intend to continue independent study sometime this summer (as I will continue formal studies in the fall), but I'm putting it to the side for now. every day I've been trying to get through a chapter of « Le Français par la Méthode Nature », a chapter from an French grammar in English, and vocab cards, while going through at least a couple pages of Plato's Republic and go back over AG grammar
>I'm in a slow plateau with my Latin
>Latin just gets harder and harder
what are you doing to study? the full extent of your progress in a language isn't necessarily obvious in the present. unless you're retarded, which you wouldn't even have been able to write your post if you were, if you are doing some combination of studying grammar, morphology, vocab, reading material that pushes your abilities - and doing so consistently, you will get better
>maybe now is a good time
>when will I know I'm ready to start learning AG?
there are certain similarities grammatically and vocabulary-wise that can be beneficial to know when picking up ancient Greek after Latin, on the whole I don't think it's that significant. it's certainly not going to make or break your chances of properly learning ancient Greek: plenty of people do fine with it without having studied a lick of Latin or any other second language. so, imo, any time is a good time to pick it up, as long as you have to time to study it and are motivated enough to keep up with it.

I'm writing a scifi sword and sandal novel about space barbarians, titled "Space Barbarian."

Would you read it without knowing anything else about it?

>skipped Hesiod for Pindar

Any books that explain how and why heroism died?
I suspect it happened during romanticism when the ideal men became a wimp, but i have no idea to be honest.

>OP never read Milton
>dumb discussion about poetry 101
>fake and heretic posts
This is the worst thread of this young decade.

Recommend me some heroic stories with heroic characters.
I'm sick of reading about these romantic "men".
I've read the Iliad and the Odyssee already.

>>15144671
Thanks Plato.

>>15144606
Finally something good. I disagree on the absolute state mandates, however, and the lack of concern for compatibility. If some theoretical personality framework could sort people into relationships with chemistry, I'd be down.

What about sublimation and using sex/ relationships as a way to entice people towards pro-social behavior

>>15064767
One of my favourites.

>>14160910
>22
>Switzerland
>around 25 in the last 2 years (it's when I started getting interested in books, don't know how much I read before, but not a lot)
>zero, but I'm currently talking to a cute 16 yo, so it might happen soon, who knows. (it's legal btw)

>>14120953
Something other than the Ilias, because that would be too easy.