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Pindar is the greatest Greek poet.

>> No.5351274

>>5351259
That's not Sappho.

>> No.5351301
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5351301

>>5351259
Nigga you cracray

>> No.5351309

>>5351259
Homer called. You're a faggot.

>> No.5351762

>>5351259
Latin poetry > Greek poetry

>> No.5351804

>>5351259
That's note Dante.

>> No.5351829

>>5351762
Latins forgot the goddess, only catulllus is a true poet.

>> No.5351845

>>5351829
Catullus is absolutely based, but you're forgetting the likes of Virgil, Horace, and the master - Ovid.

>> No.5351846

Homer and Hesiod are the greatest Greek poets. Pindar isn't even as good as Archilochus

>>5351274
Breddy gud looking at the fragments, but not enough is left of her to be able to judge properly.

>> No.5351850

>>5351804
>dante
>greek

>> No.5351874

>>5351845
I'm just vomiting Bobby Graves

>> No.5351902

The one thing modern greece did better than ancient greece is poetry.

Cavafy, Elytis, Kazatzakis are absolutely fantastic.

>> No.5351948

>>5351874
Nah m8, I think Virgil is technically superior to Ovid, but Ovid has so much "personality" in his works that he's more endearing.

He's shouldn't just be known for the Metamorphoses, as great as it is. His elegies on love; Amores, Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris are witty and there's a lot of "humanity" in them (and some good advice!) They approach the subject in a more original way than most people think love poetry is capable of: people who kill themselves over love are mocked, or a lyric about how tall women shouldn't do cowgirl.

No one deals sweet burns like Catullus though.

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5351960

all these nigs dont know shit op, youve got it right.

>> No.5351995

>>5351948
> makeup tips are so endearing

>> No.5351997

>>5351948
I wasn't disagreeing with you. From the impoverished standpoint of reading in english Ovid wins out by a mile. Virgil is poetry-by-study (at least the Aeneid, in english, I could be utterly wrong), Ovid's enthralls and dances naturally. [spoilers]I've never read catullus[/spoilers]

>> No.5352017

>>5351259
>ur a good athlete
>hurr
>greatest

>> No.5352076

>>5351997
You should read definitely read Catullus, he's really worth it, even in English. His burns are top-tier (Martial comes close, but not as good), and some of his confessional Lesbia poems can hit right in the feels. He does some wonderful things with Latin too (C. 80 comes to mind), so if you're learning he's worth checking out in that regard. Have a taster:
Catullus 97:

I did not (may the gods love me) think it mattered,
whether I might be smelling Aemilius’s mouth or arse.
The one’s no cleaner, the other’s no dirtier,
in fact his arse is both cleaner and nicer:
since it’s no teeth. Indeed, the other has
foot long teeth, gums like an old box-cart,
and jaws that usually gape like the open
cunt of a pissing mule on heat.
He fucks lots of women, and makes himself out
to be charming, and isn’t set to the mill with the ass?
Shouldn’t we think, of any girl touching him,
she’s capable of licking a foul hangman’s arse?

>> No.5352284

>>5352076
Assuming I work hard enough i should have some greek and latin next year, it's classics on the 15th.
I am very excited about my utterly useless degree.