Who was better, Homer or Virgil?
Who was better, Homer or Virgil?
Jace Miller
Easton Bailey
>national epic for the world's greatest empire
>unfinished lines lying around here and there in the poem
William Moore
>Homo and Virgin
>good
lol
Brody Robinson
I read Virgil recently and it was honestly so underwhelming. He's so clearly trying to copy Homer to the point where he just feels derivative. His plot feels contrived and has horrible pacing. His character are plot devices, like Dido for example, that doesn't do shit except fall in love with Aeneas, then hate him, then kill herself before the second half of the book even begins.
Homer is infinitely better.
Evan Parker
Homer:
>a chad, as all ancient greeks were
>arguably the most infuential writer of all time; didn't write a single word
>respected and recognized by his peers
>created by and through divine inspiration
Virgil:
>name resembles virgin
>copied homer; only merit was being used by dante, who also copied homer
>his dying wish was not granted, the emperor did not even respect it
>created his epic because of money
Andrew Clark
>the most influential writer of all time didn't write a single word
holy
shit
i never though about that
Lucas Parker
look at Jesus also. seems like writing is a hack eh
Dylan Martinez
The boomer Homer or the virgin Virgil? I wonder...
Hunter Martinez
Preferring Homer can only be a consequence of LARPing (muh older book better book) or basic bitch taste. In reality, his poems are emotionally dull from all the repetition, amoral (thus preventing pathos), very roughly composed, twisted (Vergil has some unfinished verses, while Homer has entire books written and added by later writers, bloating and undermining the whole structure) and a slower manner of storytelling, more appropriate for oral reception, but today it's just weird and harms the work.
Isaac Rogers
Homil.
Landon Roberts
Virger
Anthony Perry
you're reading translations either way lol
Ethan Davis
Literature isn’t a competition.
Colton Barnes
cope
Robert Nguyen
>Love books, appreciate the best for what they are
>”COPE!”
Makes no fucking sense
Jacob Adams
Bump
Zachary Kelly
hoc in filo: homines qui de versibus superorum illorum iudicare posse sine facultate scribendi legendique linguam antiquam rentur. o stulti amici, cur loqui de rebus incognitibus conamini? Primum, latinam discite, τε kαι ελλενην!
>puellaeridentes.imago
Until then, you're just jerking yourselves off talking pretending like you can judge poetry in a language you can't even read.
Nathaniel Ward
Not the real butterfly.
I did see you posing as her last night. She is around my location right now actually. Should make you jealous :3
Cameron Perez
Yeah this. "Judging" ancient poetry makes balls to no sense for monolignuists
Jason Perez
fag
Gabriel Barnes
poor old homer blind, blind as a bat
Hunter Bennett
Based
Grayson Robinson
Et tu, user?
Jason Roberts
>Virgil:
>name resembles virgin
lmfao
Brandon Perez
Or Socrates, who had his boytoys write about him after his death and even denounced writing in Phaedrus
Christopher Brooks
If you even have to ask...
Anthony Reyes
this. why be so pedantic as to rank these writers when you haven't even read the actual words that they wrote?
Sebastian Young
cringe
Aaron Reed
Adrian Ortiz
>even denounced writing
If that’s true Socrates can catch me postmortem, how bout that
Jose Gomez
Ovid shits on them both.
Jackson Ramirez
based
Jack Williams
Virgil is just Homer fanfiction
Hudson Kelly
>Homer was a single individual
Bazinga!
Michael Watson
>literature isn't a competition
>didactism isn't a competition
>ecastasism isn't a competition
>the exchange of human knowledge and insight into power distributions isn't a competition
your trip should be 'caterpillar'
Lincoln Turner
An opinion that's wrong, but one I can respect. Ovid can't compare to Homer but shits on Virgil though, obviously