Naso vs. Naso

[politicus]

Mike Naso (80s Pubs) vs. Publius Ovidius Naso (Ancient Pubs)

The wisdom of Ovid:
http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Ovid+(Publius+Ovidius+Naso)/1/index.html



The wisdom of Mike Naso:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=234


Discuss with maps.

[politicus]

Ovid/Ovid.

Since I expect the culture types to vote in disproportionate numbers.

Don't think Ovid would do well in modern politics, but then again no "unreformed" Roman would given their attitudes to sex and slavery. He once wrote "fyck your son if you will, it is not forbidden" and  that quote alone would kill him in electoral politics.

He would likely be on the left in certain regards with a critical attitude to wealth and inherited privilege.  

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
—  Fasti (I, 211)

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]
—  Metamorphoses (I, 140)

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco.]
—  Metamorphoses (XIII, 140)

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Thank you for this poll. Thank you.

Naso/Naso, of course.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The one that makes us smile and shake our heads both, when reading his diatribes, of course.