/lit/ - Literature

This book sucked except for this ending
Powerful

>>16066851
The Iliad > The Aeneid > The Odyssey
The only correct answer.

>>8893254
Eh, this isn't as much of a problem as you think.

From a certain perspective, Dante's Inferno is just Book 6 of The Aenied. Of course, we in posterity know that this isn't the case, because we know how Dante diverged and developed from his obvious source of inspiration, and it's worth at least trying to write your novel, to see if in the unraveling a similar development takes place, and your work in the end becomes something other than "literally Blood Meridian".

>>8716554
>tfw when you did classical studies and latin in high school
>tfw when you're teacher was a real nice guy but obviously didn't give a fuck anymore and so only taught you a bare minimum to pass the exam
>tfw when might as well not have bothered
PUELLA PUELLAM PUELLAE PUELLAE PUELLA PUELLAE PUELLARUM PUELLIS PUELLAS PUELLIS
MALOS FICOS NON VENDIMUS

>>8699103
>two dosto
>no tolstoy
>mfw

This is a thread for people who are pursuing studies outside of a university context.

Discuss your methods. When you want to learn about an area, how do you go about doing so?

Pick up tips. Share resources etc.

Turnus or Aeneas lads?

Who was the good guy?

Who was in the wrong?

Why does Aeneas exit the underworld from the Gates of Horn and not Ivory? Thoughts on this? Google only supplied the answer that false dreams leave the underworld before midnight, so Aeneas had to leave through that gate at that time.

>>6579656
23 here. Surprised that the demographic here is older than most boards, although that might explain the marginally more thought discourse here.

What translation of the Aeneid does /lit/ recommend?

I'll be having the latin alongside

>>5364525
>Learn about roman history in early teens and find it amazing
>Get forced to learn about Greek mythology during first year of uni-prep/high school and find them pretty great
>Learn about Roman mythology one year later
>Realise the Roman deities are basically a bad fanfic of the Greek ones,
>Jupiter is Zeus, Juno is Hera, Neptune is Poseidon and Minerva is Athena
>Mars is Ares, Venus is Aphrodite, and Vesta is Hestia
>They couldn't even think of a new name for Apollo
>oh, and they stole Aeneas and made him the founder of Lavinium then ascend to godhood
what fucking hacks

Can The Aeneid be read on its own, if I haven't already read The Iliad or The Odyssey? I'm more interested in its relation to Ancient Rome rather than as a sequel.