The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Funny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 8日前The Odyssey media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1285
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minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8日前The Aeneid came before the Odyssey, so it wasn’t even an original take or anything!
minus-squarecorvi@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up13·8日前While it’s still probably not wholly original, the Odyssey is about 8 centuries older than the Aeneid.
minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8日前Is it? Dammit that’s what I get for posting without checking. My Latin teacher would be… well, she wouldn’t surprised I fucked up. Probably even pleased I remembered her lessons from thirty five years ago. Ah well, thanks for the correction.
minus-squareUruanna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8日前The hint was that the Aeneid is Roman and the Odyssey is Greek. Greece is centuries before the Romans.
minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8日前Indeed, that was my thought as I replied above. Clearly that was like me saying Ovid had copied La Fontaine with his tales of animals…
The Aeneid came before the Odyssey, so it wasn’t even an original take or anything!
While it’s still probably not wholly original, the Odyssey is about 8 centuries older than the Aeneid.
Is it? Dammit that’s what I get for posting without checking. My Latin teacher would be… well, she wouldn’t surprised I fucked up. Probably even pleased I remembered her lessons from thirty five years ago.
Ah well, thanks for the correction.
The hint was that the Aeneid is Roman and the Odyssey is Greek. Greece is centuries before the Romans.
Indeed, that was my thought as I replied above. Clearly that was like me saying Ovid had copied La Fontaine with his tales of animals…
And centuries after ;)