• Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

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

    • Darkmuch@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year 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.

      • DragonTypeWyvern
        3·
        1 year ago

        Doesn’t “Latin settlers” in this context basically mean “the settlers of Latium?”

        • Darkmuch@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year 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.