>mediocre poetry :I>mediocre poetry, but ancient man :OWhy does this happen?
>>23624215Can you read latin?
>>23624215because professors like literally in their ivory tower cant understand that people dont care about pretentious whos tho like what does it say to the modern human experience/condition? literally nothing.
>>23624220No. Neither can you and 96% of people who read Virgil.
>>23624231Then you don‘t know shit about whether Virgil is good poetry.
>>23624248I also believe that poetry can't be translated and maintain 100% of it's authenticity. Yet the themes and messages of the Aeneid are gay. I don't think that's a translation problem.