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The Aeneid Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:12:25 2020 No.15116207 [Reply] [Original]

Just finished this book bros (started with the Greeks and working my through the Romans). I thought it was interesting as a historical text in terms of justification for the foundation of the Roman Empire and as an origin story but I didn't quite enjoy it as much as the Iliad and particularly the Odyssey. What do you think of it? Shall I continue with reading the Romans or move onto Medieval great works and more modern literature?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:14:23 2020 No.15116217 >>15116207 Romans

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:14:29 2020 No.15116218 >>15116207 Read the Romans, don't be a pleb.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:21:27 2020 No.15116271 >>15116207 You didn't get it

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:27:57 2020 No.15116324 >>15116271 What was your understanding of it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:29:31 2020 No.15116336 >>15116324 The point was the shit on augustus, not validate the empire

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:34:05 2020 No.15116373 >>15116336 Well, doesn't Virgil try to parallel Aeneas with Augustus?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 17:39:05 2020 No.15116409 >>15116373 Yes, aeneas isn't very virtuous if you haven't noticed, nor is he very smart It's a subtle satire, virgil really didn't like augustus or his politics

Anonymous Thu Apr 16 18:35:36 2020 No.15116838

I believe the Aeneid was better than Homer in content, actually. The fact it combines the war of the Iliad and the travels of the Odyssey make it a more compact and complete piece. The individual events are about equal in terms of interest (Dido is probably the best of the Aeneid, perhaps the Cyclops of Odyssey and Diomedes' against the God in Iliad). The sacking of Troy in the Aeneid is unmatched in either of Homer's surviving works in pure quality. The final killing (I'll avoid spoilers) is also handled nicely. The only thing I feel Homer has over Virgil is his protagonists.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 18:42:13 2020 No.15116874 File: 251 KB, 839x472, 4324242342.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15116207 Obviously continue with the based Romans.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 18:46:05 2020 No.15116897 >>15116207 You should've started with Chaucer, homie

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 18:54:21 2020 No.15116955 >>15116897 nah, nigga. greeks is where it's at. chaucer is waaay later.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:15:46 2020 No.15117119 >>15116207 You enjoyed the Odyssey more than the Iliad, anon?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:17:44 2020 No.15117136 >>15116207 Plenty of good Silver Age stuff like Pharsalia or the Thebaid.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:21:19 2020 No.15117162 File: 168 KB, 657x527, crusader.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15116207 >Medieval great works not to derail this thread but what do you guys recommend from the middle ages? is there a chart?

Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:24:55 2020 No.15117187

>>15117162
City of God
Confessions
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
The Poetic Edda
The Prose Edda
The Nibelungen Lied
Parzival
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
Beowulf
The Poem of the Cid
The Book of the City of Ladies
Prison of Love

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:25:57 2020 No.15117194 File: 272 KB, 499x618, 1587079557316.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15117187 thanks anon, have a rare frog

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:32:02 2020 No.15117234 >>15117162 Chaucer and pearl

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 19:33:22 2020 No.15117239 Romans if you are looking for wit. Greeks if you want mystical babble.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 20:38:23 2020 No.15117680 >>15116207 world's first fan fiction

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 20:41:34 2020 No.15117695 Aeneas's trip to hades is the best part of all three epics

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 20:41:34 2020 No.15117696 >>15117680 fanfiction deals with copyrighted characters. this is not that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 20:42:35 2020 No.15117707 Have you read Metamorphoses?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 21:00:15 2020 No.15117817 File: 9 KB, 288x144, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15117187 > the Quran Do people really care about tusken raider culture

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 21:02:08 2020 No.15117828 >>15116874 ew

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 21:04:36 2020 No.15117841 I'm reading The Iliad right now, book 5 is pretty fucking tight.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 21:04:47 2020 No.15117843 >>15117162 the matter of france and the matter of britain

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 00:12:29 2020 No.15118950 >>15117843 What books in the Matter of Britain?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 00:17:59 2020 No.15118991 >>15117194 Have not seen that pepe before thank you anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 02:12:30 2020 No.15119594 >>15117119 Yes, Odyssey is one of the best books I've ever read. I do like the Iliad too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 02:13:32 2020 No.15119601 >>15116838 Very true, Turnus is an excellent character.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 02:59:30 2020 No.15119793 >>15116838 >I believe the Aeneid was better than Homer Stop reading right there. Fucking retard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 03:04:49 2020 No.15119825 >>15119793 cope

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