/lit/ - Literature

>>10960711
Explain?

>>10960726
Start with Vergil, maybe Caesar or Cicero. What are you interested in?

>>10960779
"Dramatically masturbatory?" Is this some keyword I haven't come across? You mean scenes that are irrelevant to plot?

W/r/t the Iliad, catalogs are a trope of epic. Grab any commentary or intro text to epic to find out way more.

>>10961298
All for you, my man. Make the world a better place.

>>10961709
No this is actually a great question and up for debate. We have actually developed a bunch of different modern Latin accents -- Catholic latinists pronounce differently from British from English. Church Latin is its own beast, but both the British and English Latin are supposedly the "reconstructed pronunciation," working from all the evidence we can compile (poetry, ancient grammars, old jokes, linguistic shifts in different locations, etc), but they end up sounding pretty different still! The tldr here is we are trying are best but likely would be pretty incomprehensible to a Roman, even though we now can understand one another. Make sense? It is pretty quixotic, when you think about it