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Is Virgil the only good Roman writer?

>> No.17381629

Ovid shines like a light-house in the western canon.

>> No.17381640

>>17381624
Just going to forget Cicero and Livy?

>> No.17381641

The historians are the best Roman writers

>> No.17382056

>>17381624
Tacitus is the best Roman writer. His hard as nails style is unmatched, even by Cicero. Horace is the best poet.

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>>17381624


HE IS THE ONLY ONE OF WHICH YOU ARE AWARE.

>> No.17382243

>>17381640
Or Caesar for that matter?

>> No.17382252

>>17382233
shut up you retard

>> No.17382272

>>17381629
This.
The Metamorphoses alone makes him a top 3 writer in all of galactic history.

>> No.17382294
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>>17381640
Pic related
>>17382243
Pic related, and I fucking loved the Conquest of Gaul
>"Caesar didn't get to kill enough Germanic savages so Caesar discovered an engineering marvel so Caesar could build a bridge and kill more Germanic savages."
>"then Caesar burned the bridge because savages do not have permission to enjoy Caesar's genius"

>> No.17382295

>>17381629
This and basically this whole thread. OP is wholly ignorant if not worse.

>> No.17383174

Ever heard of Longinus?

>> No.17383200

Besides all of the kino mentioned (and many many many others)

READ Apuleius

>> No.17383356

>>17381624
Ovid is trippy as fuck. Definitely the most based Roman poet, even if Virgil is more beautiful

>> No.17383377

>>17383356
They’re definitely the twin heights of Latin in my eyes

>> No.17383407

>>17381629
/thread

also catullus

>> No.17383607

>>17381629
I've found Ovid overrated but Virgil is great and I enjoyed what I've read of Horace.

Don't know if I'm missing something from Ovid.

>> No.17383689
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>>17383174
No! It’s the Spear or Longinus!

>> No.17383933

>>17381624
only good femboy

>> No.17383987

>>17381624
Virgil is good but so are Horace and Ovid if you want to stick to poetry. Livy is an incredible writer as well.

>> No.17384101

>>17381624
Ovid
Petronius
Catullus
Caesar (his Gallic Wars is really something)
Livy
Horace
Juvenal
the two Plinys
Tacitus
Terence
Apuleius
Jerome

>> No.17384118

>>17382243
>>17382294
Conquest of Gaul was interesting for the history but Caesar was an autistic as fuck writer only trying to convey the military tactics and almost nothing else.
>I sent thirty men five miles east and positioned them at exactly ten feet from each other and made them all face north to see the Helvetians moving West by Southwest at 12:03 AM.

>> No.17385296

>>17384101
>not Kikero
trash

>> No.17385501

>>17383689
I exhaled through my nostrils.

>> No.17385790

>>17381629
/thread

also:
>Catullus
>Horatius
>Lucan
>Persius