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>Odysseus? I've only heard of Ulysses.
>Zeus? Hera? Surely you mean Jove and Juno.
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>>25263810
>Romans can't pronounce words
Fuck you, troll.
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>>25263810
The first time I read Homer for some reason they used the Roman names for all the gods in the translation so now it's all forever screwed up in my brain and I can't keep them straight
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Jove is only used in the written context, so you wouldn’t have heard about it.

I am the chad now.
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yes. i am familiar with the pantheon you allude to. it was they who so quarrelled over vasco de gama in his effort to spread the word of christ to india as depicted in "os lusiadas" by camoens.
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>>25263810
This. Hellenists get the rope.

>>25264030
Because Lvsitanians are the trve descendants of Roma
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>>25263810
>>25264042
>preferring the imitation to the original
Soul issue
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>>25264042
obvs. they inheritated the favor of hesper, whose domain is westward expansion. barlowe would later ascribe it to colombus for his discovery of the americas. maybe james cook got it next.
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>>25264080
the original is unfaithful to the imitation
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>>25263810
>preferring gods that basically were so ill-defined that they had to be outwardly associated with greek myth just to fill in their characters
>preferring the superficial, dumbed-down version over the original



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