• Match!!English
    91·
    2 years ago

    honestly it’s exactly the opposite because the Romans were hellenaboos

    • Darkmuch@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      Yup. I love the joke, but The Aeneid is basically how do we steal and build on the legacy of famous Greek mythos, The Iliad.

      … by pretending that we were founded by Greek heroes and not just some Latin settlers.

        • Darkmuch@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          I was using the syntax I saw on Wikipedia which phrased it as

          and the poem’s second half tells of the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

    • Oiconomia@feddit.deOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      But what if I just purchased Greek gods from Kristy burger and disguised them as my own…