I'm a former English teacher. You don't need to be an English teacher, however, to know THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY ARE TWO DISTINCTLY SEPARATE STORIES.

This lying fuck did a wikipedia search of "the classics" and wants smart people points for name-dropping THE WRONG FUCKING NAME.

He hasn't read either. At best he's seen a bunch of bleached Hellenistic statue avatars on the internet and nodded along to their RETVRN prattling. biggus-dickus

Ever meet that annoying kid in grade school that said "I am very smart. I know that E Equals Em Cee Squared!" young-sheldon Fifty years later, one of those became my-hero

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexagon
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    26 days ago

    waves excitedly at pristine unopened copy of The Art of War in le lawyer foyer maybe-later-honey

      • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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        25 days ago

        Honestly, that sounds more interesting, if only for the purposes of learning about Roman military organization during the transition to the early middle ages. Even then, you'd still have compare the original source with how each generation of scholarship has to say about it.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        26 days ago

        dramatic book-on-hard-surface sound

        Gravity's. Rainbow. berdly-smug

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        26 days ago

        How about Vegetius "Epitoma Rei Militaris", that book was very popular so medieval chuds probably had unread but extremely luxurious manuscrips on their shelves.

        • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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          25 days ago

          Lol I legitimately love this movie. Can't tell you how many times I watched this on illegal satellite ppv after school

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            25 days ago

            It's a good time for sure. I could quote it endlessly and turn into a local version of a Redditor, but you know and I know the good parts.

            spoiler

            Most of it is good parts.