Post over rated af acclaimed historical texts
Pic oh so related, the worst fan fic I read so far.
>>7415586
Excellent bait, friend.
>>7415586
If Vergil is fan fic, then so is literally the entirety of the western canon.
Bait 3/10
>>7415586
This overrated garbage. Just a bunch of pretentious nonsense that nobody would care about if it wasn't for the fancy Old English writing
Since this is an Aeneid thread, could any of your fine e/lit/es tell me what the best translation is?
>>7416308
Can't go wrong with Fagles
>>7416308
Mandelbaum or Fitzgerald.
Fuck off with this entry-level meme opinion. Virgil did not invent the Aeneas legend.
>>7416297
kill yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7g
>>7416313
>War and a man I sing
yeah . . . no
>>7416308
Unless heroic couplets bother you, read Dryden's. It's beautiful.
>>7416297
Tolstoy agrees with you.
>>7417953
Words cannot begin to describe how shitty Tolstoy is.
George Bernard Shaw didn't like Shakespeare either, and he was a total hack.
Mark Twain, that boring homespun cynic, also disdained Shakespeare, and believed (like the complete tard he was) that Francis Bacon had really written Shakespeare's works.
>>7417967
>Tolstoy
>Shitty
We're reaching levels of reddit that shouldn't even be possible
>>7417967
Butthurt over 9000
>>7417973
Redditors are the kind of people who would like Tolstoy.
>>7417980
Dostoyevsky is Reddit's Russian™
>>7417980
m8 you're fucked
>>7417985
I hope you're happy with your pleb opinions.
>>7416308
Ahl
>>7416308
http://myplace.frontier.com/~joepye1/Vergil/excerpts.htm
>>7416297
I used to think this, until I actually read Shakespeare.
>>7417994
I stated no opinion. Read more; it will improve comprehension.
>>7415586
I liked it a lot less than Odyssey and Iliad for whatever reason actually, but its still pretty excellent and well worth reading for its historical significance if nothing else.
>>7418055
>>7418007
Juno Almighty pitied her difficult death with its painful
Anguish long drawn out, and dispatched to her, down from Olympus,
Iris, to unmoor her struggling soul from the limbs’ web of bondage. 695
Dido was dying a death that was neither deserved nor predestined,
But premature: a poor woman, swept up by the quick fire of madness.
So, as Prosperpina hadn’t yet taken the locks of her golden
Tresses, and thereby consigned her being to Stygian Orcus,
Iris, rosy with dew, skimmed down through the sky upon crocus 700
Wings. And her wake, as she passed by the sun, traced colours in
thousands.
Standing by Dido’s head, she spoke: ‘I take, as instructed,
Locks consecrated to Dis. I untether your self from your body.’
Then, as her right hand severed the hair, all warmth escaped Dido;
And as it did, life fluttered away from her into the breezes.
>>7418064
This is pure ideology.
>>7417985
Dostoyevsky is 9gag, Tolstoy is Reddit
