/lit/ - Literature

File: 54 KB, 651x481, akuoplhb20f01.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:03:27 2021 No.17236408 [Reply] [Original]

Why is Roman literature so inferior to Greek literature?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:06:12 2021 No.17236427 >>17236408 Read Spengler

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:07:16 2021 No.17236432 >>17236427 Does he comment on this phenomenon?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:10:55 2021 No.17236452 >>17236408 Too busy actually living the philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:16:13 2021 No.17236477 >>17236408 ? Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Caesar, Augustus, Josephus, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius, Lucretius,Seneca, Plotinus, Marcus Aurelius, Sextus Empiricus.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:18:30 2021 No.17236488 >>17236477 Biggus Dickus, the list goes on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:19:06 2021 No.17236493 File: 67 KB, 800x649, 1545734974425.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17236408 >basically >basically >basically

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:24:59 2021 No.17236524 >Virgil Inferior to Homer >Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius Inferior to Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch >Lucretius, Seneca, Plotinus, Marcus Aurelius, Sextus Empiricus Inferior to Plato and Aristotle

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:26:08 2021 No.17236533 >>17236524 was meant for >>17236477

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:28:20 2021 No.17236549 >>17236524 >>Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius >Inferior to Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch oh come on, you don't even believe that

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:30:19 2021 No.17236555 >>17236408 Closer to Africa than Persia, too thoroughly conquered the Celts (druids) and Etruscans early on, read Spengler etc.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 19:33:39 2021 No.17236576 >>17236549 everyone believes that tho

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 20:08:34 2021 No.17236774 >>17236477 I would put all these niggas in the bin for just one more Homeric epic to have survived to modern day or one dialogue of Aristotle, and fuck the Aeneid especially

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 20:11:09 2021 No.17236788 >>17236432 He comments on every phenomenon.

>>	࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYSEULU. Fri Jan 8 20:18:26 2021 No.17236835 >>17236408 VULGAR MISCONCEPTION —ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE IS BETTER THAN ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE, DESPITE THE LATTER BEING MORE IMPORTANT.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 20:22:52 2021 No.17236858 >>17236477 Josephus, Marcus Aurelius, Pltonus and Sextus Empiricus wrote in Greek

>>	࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYSEULU. Fri Jan 8 20:27:30 2021 No.17236884 >>17236858 THEY WROTE IN GREEK, BUT THEY THOUGHT IN: R O M A N .

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 20:28:18 2021 No.17236890 >>17236884 >BUT THEY THOUGHT IN: R O M A N . And that's why their works are shit compared to their Greek counterparts.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 20:29:47 2021 No.17236905 >>17236884 cope

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 20:34:44 2021 No.17236932 >>17236477 You forgot Catullus. Overall, I'd still give it to the Greeks since the Roman literary scene drew pretty much everything from the Greeks, and they themselves acknowledged it.

Anonymous Fri Jan 8 20:46:08 2021 No.17237007

>>17236408
“Simply take them from the Greek and rename”

No, they just adopted a lot of Greek mythology into their own because they assumed they were the same. They equated their gods with Germanic gods too.

Greeks did the same with the Near East. Herodotus identified Isis as Demeter in Histories.

>>	I hate women Fri Jan 8 20:49:21 2021 No.17237030 >>17236884 How did fags fall for your bait

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 21:40:54 2021 No.17237392 File: 1.74 MB, 2030x2530, 1609635944405.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17236835 >>17236884

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 21:45:07 2021 No.17237426 >>17237392 wow taquito that's kinda sad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 21:47:48 2021 No.17237445 File: 145 KB, 1200x952, Augstus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If Greece is so amazing then why did Rome conquer them?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 21:47:58 2021 No.17237447 File: 36 KB, 847x673, 1593486254592.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >wow taquito that's kinda sad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 21:48:51 2021 No.17237450 >>17237445 because romans were militaristic brutes

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 21:52:18 2021 No.17237469 >>17236477 Plotinus wrote in greek

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 21:52:58 2021 No.17237472 >>17237445 If R*ome is so amazing, then why don't they exist anymore, but Greece does?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 8 22:02:51 2021 No.17237524 >>17236408 Holy..BTFO

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 03:08:17 2021 No.17238968 >>17237445 Who conquered who monsieur?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 03:26:29 2021 No.17239056 >>17237472 They do in our hearts

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 03:33:03 2021 No.17239081 File: 3.86 MB, 3167x4000, Saint_Paul,_Rembrandt_van_Rijn_(and_Workshop?),_c._1657.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17236477 You forgot Saint Paul and Saint Augustine

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 03:51:38 2021 No.17239134 >>17236774 I agree, but I would be extremely reluctant to throw out Plotinus.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 03:54:55 2021 No.17239147 >>17236408 >>17236432 romans are doers, not neets trolling the ruling class this is why atheists hate them

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 03:57:49 2021 No.17239156 >>17237445 >>17237450 Greece vs Rome is basically Soijak vs Gigachad situation. And yes greeks had better lit but still

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 04:24:30 2021 No.17239249 >>17236408 gayreeks got their gods from egypt and anatolia

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 04:50:18 2021 No.17239365 >>17237007 They did the same for every Egyptian deity. They thought it was just the Olympians disguised as animals.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 04:51:20 2021 No.17239368 >>17237472 Ancient Greece doesn't exist any more than Rome does.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 05:49:07 2021 No.17239559 >>17236408 greeks were more degenerate because they put their pee pee in poo poo >>17236477 based, greeks were superior in phylosophy but were btfo in any other fields, expecially in historical texts

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]