This is what’s occupying my attention atm. It’s amazing how deliciously racy and/or VIOLENTLY EPIC classical literature can be as well as containing awesome terms like PHILOSOPHER KINGS. Too bad I must worry about it more for school than anything else, or I’d enjoy it more. At the very least, The Aeneid is better than City of Bones and Twilight. They don’t have a giant traptastic wooden horse.
Yeah, I said it.
Come get me Bunny Girl and Otaku-Boy!
I’m a long-term Aeneid fanboy; it’s a testament to my love for LoGH that it’s – I think – the only anime I’ve compared, in any way, to Virgil. Book II is my favourite book – a great mix of suspense/dramatic irony, violence and pathos. And of course it’s better than CoB and Twilight – for a start, it’s not in prose.
Plato, on the other hand, I only ever read under duress, though he was pretty educational.
I dont like classical books though. But you saying ‘violently epic’ that made me change my mind. Ill try to look at that book. Thanks
i’ve never read aeneid – in terms of violence, the old testament or this one?
When it comes to classical books, I’ve read The Divine Comedy by Dante (I guess that a lot know this one already)… It’s because we have a book report to do on that XD… But it’s quite good and intruiging.
Wasn’t able to finish Aenid, which reduced my ability to appreciate The Divine Comedy. The tale of Gilgamesh is also quite GAR. Plato’s okay – just don’t get too carried away. Also, The Odyssey is a great romp.
@The Animanachronism
Poetry ftw. Though I’d actually lead a lot more knowledge of Latin to be able to read it in that form. It also makes me wish I knew the structure of Troy better; some of the locations of temples and houses are kind of obscure (though not to the ancient people reading it) and just makes things more confusing.
@Kairu Ishimaru
PRAISE VIRGIL!
@biankita
I’ve never read the old testament, so I wouldn’t know. But I would definitely think that the Bible is more violent than this.
@kanzeon
Might check that out, I love a good laugh.
@ghostlightning
To be frank, the odyssey keeps boring me whenever I read it. The Aeneid seems much more fluid and engaging.
@omisyth: The Divine Comedy is not a comedy unlike what the title was saying. That’s what I thought at first too XD… Nevertheless, it’s good imo.
It’s divided unto three books. Dante’s adventure from hell (Inferno, my favorite XD); purgatory (Purgatorio); and heaven (Paraiso). (It’s a
looongpoem btw, to clarify stuff…)….
YOU’RE FIRED FROM YUKAN!!
/kidding
The only really old books I like is The Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia
@blissmo-sama: YES! FIRE HIM NAO!1 XD
Kidding.. Seriously Im just kidding. XD
@kanzeon
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@blissmo
I’m not going to dignify that with a response.
@Kairu Ishimaru
lol.