>>7515851
because i literally just started with the greeks a few days ago

>>7516136
Same. Just got the iliad. I'm starting the greeks at the VERY beginning

Commencing with the Chinese

romans produced nothing of literary value except for two guys. worthless barbarians.

learn sanskrit instead of latin.

>>7516136
>>7516157

>not starting with the Sumerians


It's no wonder /lit/ is full of hacks.

>>7516172
Pliny
Cicero
Marcus Aurelius
Varro
Tacitus
Seneca
Livy
Virgil
Ovid
Catullus
Horace
Cato
>tribune of the plebs detected

>>7516195
>Pliny
>Cicero
>Marcus Aurelius
>Varro
>Tacitus
>Seneca
>Livy
>Catullus
>Horace
>Cato

yes, like i said, all trash except for two guys

>Virgil
>Ovid

>>7516203
>because I dont like them they "produced nothing of literary value"
wew

>>7516176
Is there a meme guide for setting off with the sumerians or are they not actually that important

>>7516227
They wrote the first written word in Western culture.

The Epic of Gilgamesh inspired every civilization's writing for centuries.

Just go ahead and stop now. You're obviously too stupid for this kind of hobby.

>>7516216
>i think turn of the common era tabloid gossip, chicken soup for the soul: rome edition, and bad historians are worthwhile literature

keep on having bad taste pleb

>>7516227
they're a meme. we have maybe a couple epics left. interesting to no one but historians and mythologists.

>>7516203
how can someone hate on our boy Marky Marc?

>>7516238
Typical STEM-tier reductionism. If you can't comprehend the significance of Cicero that's your problem.

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>>7516238
>Cicero
>Irrelevant to Western rhetoric

>>7516253
>chicken soup for the soul: rome edition

intellectually vacuous and mein gott ideology, etc, etc.taoist thought arrives at much of the same place in ways that aren't retarded.

>>7516261
>stem
>if someone criticizes the romans they're a stemlord

βάλλ' εἰς kόραkας

>>7516269
cicero and horace are the only valid objections, sure, but meh.

>>7516292
>Googling greek bantz to """prove""" your point that Romans contributed nothing to the literary world in a Roman literary thread
And you have finally completed your pseudo-intellectual image. In all sincerity, however, dismissing the entire Roman literary canon as worthless is probably the stupidest thing I've read on this board, if that means anything to you.

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>>7516238
>these are the people that you discuss literature with.
I think that it's finally time I left this board.