Romonkeys dumbed down Homer to make him more palatable to modern audiences - /his/ (#17762203) [Archived: 1023 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/13/2025, 11:11:18 PM No.17762203
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>Compared to the layered, poetic Greek originals, Roman adaptations like the Aeneid were more didactic and less ambiguous. The mythological depth of Homer was reduced in Roman popular culture to moral lessons or patriotic allegory.
>In the Roman Empire, simplified retellings of Homeric stories were sometimes used in schools, theater, or popular literature. These versions were stripped of complexity or nuance—sort of like a modern kids’ version of Shakespeare.
lmao
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Anonymous
6/13/2025, 11:25:47 PM No.17762241
Meanwhile your ''nordic'' ancestors didn't even know what a book or a theater was, their entire cultural and social horizon was the mudhut and the half-starved cows shitting around it
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Anonymous
6/13/2025, 11:26:49 PM No.17762245
>>17762241
how did you intuit anything in the OP as being pro-nordic
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 11:57:04 PM No.17762316
>>17762241
RENT FREE
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 10:56:36 AM No.17763179
>>17762203 (OP)
based
total romanigger death
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:01:59 AM No.17763191
>>17762203 (OP)
can you actually read latin and greek?
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:02:18 AM No.17763192
>>17762203 (OP)
>mythological depth of Homer
And now actually read Iliad, its 200 pages of
>Biggus Dickus, son of Niggerath Faggotron, stabbed 500 enemies in the groin, and it pleased Zeus lmao
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:03:10 AM No.17763193
>OP sees no irony of the fact that he is quoting this from a dumbed down wikipedia summary
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:08:33 AM No.17763206
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The Romans also gave Achilles superpowers. The whole "he was dipped in the river Styx by his ankle so he would become INVINCIBLE" comes from them.
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:27:51 AM No.17763245
>>17763191
Uhm... yes?
S-Shut up Romecuck, ok?
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:36:06 AM No.17763257
>>17763191
I used to. Austically plowed the Dowling Method for several months and studied the vocab to the point where I was able to read regular texts and Martials epigrams, nothing high level like Ovid or Virgil though. Latin is quite easy to learn.
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:54:07 AM No.17763280
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>>17763191
Forget those, can you read the Aryan language?
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:55:12 AM No.17763282
>>17762241
>my ancestors were enslaved and raped by roman city state
>this is somehow a point of pride for non germanics
Heh, 2000 years ago my ancestors were slaves to a Roman legionary. Muh civilization muh fucka.
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 12:12:06 PM No.17763297
>>17762203 (OP)
>Roman adaptations like the Aeneid were more didactic and less ambiguous.
The Aeneid was not an adaption and was written some 500-600 years after the works of Homer. Obviously they are going to be different.
>simplified retellings of Homeric stories were sometimes used in schools, theater, or popular literature
They did this before the Romans in Greece as well. What's your point? Adapting material for a medium which it is not normally in happens all the time.
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 11:02:48 PM No.17764182
>>17762241
GOOD MORNING SAAAAAARSS!
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 7:41:44 AM No.17765108
>>17762203 (OP)
American English is more stupid and forthright than Victorian prose. Is it axiomatic that more successful empires create less engaging literature?
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 7:48:19 AM No.17765122
>>17762241
>It was worse when white people did it several thousand years ago, the fact that most brown people do it today is because of white people, obviously!
>Yes this is a perfectly reasonable stance to have given all the uncharacteristic kindness white people have shown me!
>I can't wait until all white people are dead so we can return to even more brutal tribalism and I can be a serf for my more cunning peers. At least the boot which stamps on my neck will be BROWN!
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:22:55 AM No.17765297
>>17762241
üga büga
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:36:01 AM No.17765310
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>>17763282
But somehow jews are worse even though they enslaved and castrated you, right?

It's almost like losing a war doesn't make you bad or something?
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:19:20 PM No.17765551
>>17763280
Maybe 300 years ago there were still pockets of people speaking it, but I doubt you could find any true fluent Sanskrit speakers outside of remote Hindu monasteries. It's become utterly fossilized like ecclesiastical Latin
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:37:12 PM No.17765643
>>17762203 (OP)
i dont blame the romans we are talking about centuries of separation
its like comparing the bible to hittite tablets of course the iorn age people completely fuck up trying to retell the bronze age