Which is the best? The most profound? The most literary? The most fun?
>>24849521Based solely on the fun factor, how much I personally enjoyed them:Paradife Loft > Aeneid > Iliad > Divine Comedy > OdysseyDivine Comedy is the most profound theologically, but it's a bit of a chore to read with all the footnotes you have to check.
no way you did dante dirty like that
>>24849521>Divine Comedy is the most profound theologicallyit's fan fiction.
>>24849521Found the Odyssey Of Homer, Pope version in the bargain bin of a used bookstore and picked it up for 1$. if I have nobody else to keep me accountable to being a different, person with an attention span, hopefully Homer, Pope and /LIT/ will.
>>24849521George Chapman > Alexander Pope
>>24849534literally all of them are
>>24849534Imagine being so low iq and/or uneducated that you actually believed a /lit/ meme about the greatest poet to ever live.
>>24849635What makes him the greatest poet to ever live?
>>24849640Technical considerations of verse aside, there's probably never been a poet with as great an imagination and intensity as Dante. Dumb people take it for granted that such a world as the Divine Comedy exists but he had to create everything in it.
>>24849646Eh I think the structure as an allegory and an intellectual framework is less impressive than Homer's imaginative achievement balancing several characters and storylines and moving parts simultaneously with true unrelenting emotional intensity
>>24849670On the whole, I wouldn't confidently say Dante or Homer are superior to the other, but Dante's skills as a visual painter are undoubtedly superior to Homer's. He is a much more visual poet.
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>>24849686Is there a particular passage you think is most demonstrative of this?
>>24849521>Æneid>Iliad>Divine Comedy>Divine Comedy
>>24849635anon, you're getting livid over a religious equivalent of an isekai power fantasy.
bro's got anime refs in his back pocket lmao
>>24849746Kek, I haven't heard that before.
>>24849521For the Big Four it's:Comedy > Aeneid > Iliad > Odyssey I wouldn't put the others on the same tier. Although, I do think Paradise Lost is excellent in many ways.
>>24849746>power fantasy le badwoman moment. Bet you glaze Apothecary Diaries and hate shonen
>>24849746Anon, you're getting your opinions about literature from /lit/ memes. That's far more embarrassing. Try to be more original.
>>24849646Dante does a ton of interesting technical things too, and interesting numerological things, etc. People reading him on translation really don't know what they're missing and I think that one of the main reasons people will rank Milton up with him, whereas I think there is an obvious gap, as great as Milton is (and I say this as someone whose first language is English).Milton does all sorts of clever things like having Satan speak through chains of self-referential similes, while God never uses similes, some neat numerological introductions (Sin enters on line 666, the fall occurs in line 999 of the respective books). But Dante does this sort of thing at a much greater level of complexity and virtuosity. The way themes reccur at the same point in the ascending spiral arc of the narrative and how the character's movements mimic this is really something else, all the patterns within patterns which of course goes with his theology of creation as theophany.But I'm also a philosopher by training so this probably biases me because I think Dante is more obviously the most philosophical of all the great poets. And while he is in many areas derivative, he brings his sources to life in a brilliant fusion and I think he is more novel than people give him credit for on politics and history.
I find the idea that one's favorite part of the Commedia reveals something about the reader. I have slowly gone from preferring the Inferno to the Purgatorio to the Paradiso. The guys who do the Teaching Company Lectures on it (which are quite good) say they've taught it to secular university kids, prisoners on the road to redemption, and monks, and the pattern is that the undergrads prefer the Inferno, the prisoners the Purgatorio, and the monks the Paradiso.
>>24849635Shitalian in the building
>>24849534>>24849746>>24849780Why are zoomers so braindead and anti-intellectual?
>>24849871presumably because the braindead and anti-intellectual weren't the ones who brought about the heaven on earth they now have to contend with.
>>24849871beepbeepboopboop + the most updooted sm post thinks for me beepbeeppooppoop
>>24849521Now this is epic
Odyssey (good translation) > Iliad (good translation) > Argonautica (original?) > Iliad (Pope) > Odyssey (Pope) > Aeneid (Dryden) > Paradife Loft > Divine ComedyPlay whatever jewish numerological games you want, I still don‘t care about a poem where all the heroes are vilified and all the faggots and virgins are lionized.
>>24849521>Which is the best?The Iliad>The most profound? The Divine Comedy>The most literary? The Divine Comedy>The most fun?The Odyssey
>>24849753fucking kek, they're usually the kind
>>24849521>Pope's novels passed off as the Iliad and the Odyssey
