Are Greek language writers greater than Latin writers?

>Plato and Aristotle
>The Bible
This game was over before it even began.

>Romans educate their children with Greek histories and philosophies
>Greeks educate their children with Greek histories and philosophies
Case closed.

What Greece is to culture and literature, Rome is to military and politics.

>>2518770

Aren't the Greeks also well known for their political and martial writers?

> Thucydides
> Xenophon
> Marcus Aurelius
> Josephus
> Plutarch
> Arrian
> Polybius
> Josephus
> Herodotus
> Strabo
> Aristotle
> Plato
> Eusebius
> Justinian I

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>>2518770
>Rome is to military
Ahem

You're all a bunch of pedantic faggots - its just 2 different languages.

>>2518770
Greece is arguably much more influential in politics.
Even Cicero was reliant on Plato.

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Ancient Greece >>> Ancient Rome on a cultural level of course, but Italics have a much stronger continuity of accomplishments than Greeks who became irrelevant after the Fall of Constantinople. Central and Northern Italians are still top tier Europeans even if you ignore their Roman past.

>>2518817
Ironically Italy became relevant again precisely because of the fall of Constantinople, which kicked off the main wave of the Renaissance

>>2518830
No. Central and Northern Italy were already relevant before; Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, Jordanus de Nemore, Mondino de Liuzzi, Guido of Arezzo, etc. The reason why the Renaissance was focused in Italy was because the Italian city-states had become the wealthiest and most developed part of Western Europe since the 12th century. They maintained that lead until the Age of Discovery.

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Ancient Greece excelled at arts and philosophy whereas Romans, being a more pragmatic folk, championed the fields of engineering and law.

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>>2518871
More like, Romans didn't have time for philosophy, science and shit as they were a expansionist military culture like the Spartans and Macedonians (who also contributed little on a cultural level). The Greeks were like: "Nah man, let's just establish some coastal colonies and enjoy sunshine while philosophizing about life and stuff".

>>2518994
Are you kidding? The polis utilized citizens as soldiers.

>>2519005
Point still stands. Greece never achieved anything of relevance military-wise before the Macedonians (who were originally not Greek).

>>2519014
>(who were originally not Greek)
Wat
"The Macedonians (Greek: Μαkεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece. Essentially an ancient Greek people,[1] they gradually expanded from their homeland along the Haliacmon valley on the northern edge of the Greek world, absorbing or driving out neighbouring non-Greek tribes, primarily Thracian and Illyrian.[2][3] They spoke a northwestern dialect of Greek, although the lingua franca of the region was at first Attic and then Koine Greek."
>inb4 balkanposting

>>2519037
The origins of their language aren't very clear actually. But the most important thing is that they were quite different from the southern and island Greeks. They became 'civilized' much later, around the same time the Romans did and they were never important to Greek culture before their conquests.

>>2519063
>the most important thing is that they were quite different from the southern and island Greeks. They became 'civilized' much later, around the same time the Romans did and they were never important to Greek culture before their conquests.
Sure, that's generally true.

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>>2518794
*blocks your sunlight*

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>>2520640
>Hey man, can you move a bit? You're blocking my sunlight maaan...

Roman writers have a much more "modern" voice, and tend to be significantly more "genre savvy", ie, they categorise their own writing much more so than the Greeks did and tend to stick much more cleanly to genre, ie, Roman historians write history and don't generally take long meandering philosophical or mythical detours.

Roman poets are also superior, but then wordplay is very much a Roman art, who developed the Greek arts of rhetoric to perfection.

>>2519063
>>2519079
>wrong and wrong
The "macedonians are not Greeks" meme starts with the waning of Athens and Philip II wanting to become king of the total Greek area.
It was mainly Demosthenes, the Athenian orator, who claimed this shit with the aim of organising Athens against the northern "barbarians".

After the above shitslinging, Alexander the Great took part in the Olympics by proving that he comes from the Argead dynasty, which originated from a Peloponesian city called Argos.

Stop believing in meme history bits from the 20th century

>>2517919
bump

>>2520741
>Alexander the Great took part in the Olympics by proving...
So why he have to prove it???

Touché!

Even Italy language writers are better

>>2522910
>Italy language writers