What went wrong?

>>1913261
Apollo stopped Diomedes that one time

Hannibal happened.

>hey greece check out this awesome Iliad fanfiction we wrote

is it worth reading? i just finished reading the Iliad and the Odyssey so i'm looking for something similar. But i read somewhere that the Aeneid is more like a subtle commentary about the Rome of Virgil's time. That, and calling Zeus Jupiter is blasphemy

>>1913971

Don't get me wrong, it's a great book, but there are flaws. I'd say that the commentary on current Rome is not subtle, instead he beats you over the head with it. For example, Aeneas is a perfect personification of Roman values, but he's also boring as fuck because of it. Also, he's boring (and makes you root for his arch enemy) because he's never in real danger because the gods protect him constantly.

>>1913261
I think it' so fucking weird how all of the ancient world from Spain to italy the Balkans (and later even fucking England and Ireland) claimed to be descendants of a small Anatolian town with 2000-3000 inhabitants in it.

>>1914233
thanks for the reply. guess i have to learn more about Rome 30 BC before i'll tackle it

>>1914309

Also, the Roman's didn't really steal gods (for the most part). They had gods, and saw that greeks had their own, so they associated their own gods with greek.

>>1913883
Kek

We WUZ Trojans n shieet.

>>1914359

It's strange. They claim that Trojans originated in Italy, went to Anatolia, then came back to Italy.

>>1913261
AYO
HOL UP
SO YOU BE SAYIN
YOU BE SAYIN DAT WE
WE WUZ TROJANZ AND SHIEEEET?!?!?