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Back on my classics bullshit.
Today in my Latin class, I said aloud that I could imagine Aeneas as Orlando Bloom, and I meant that in my head Aeneas now looks like Orlando Bloom. My friend looked at me in confusion and said, “He can’t play Orlando Bloom. He’s dead.”
The Romans were bottom shamers.
~Funky fresh tune here~
Now,
this is a story
all about how
a man, who first from the boundaries of Troy, exiled by fate, came to Italy and the Lavinian shores – he was tossed much both on land and on sea, by the power of the gods, on account of the mindful anger of savage Juno, he having suffered many (things) and also from war, until he could found a city, and was bringing in the gods to Latium, from whence [came] the race of Latins, and Alban fathers, and of the high city walls of Rome. Muse, recall the causes to me, by what damaged nod, or grieving what, the queen of the gods compelled a man marked by piety to undergo so many misfortunes, to come to so many labors. Can there be such great anger in the minds of the gods? There was an ancient city, ((which) Tyrian colonists held) Carthage, long opposite Italy and the mouths of the Tiber, rich in resources and most fierce in the pursuits of war; Juno is said to have cherished this one city more than all lands with Samus having been esteemed less; here were her arms, here was her chariot; if in any way the fates would allow it, the goddess both hoped and cherished this (city) to be a seat of power for the nations. But indeed she had heard that the offspring derived from Trojan blood, which, one day, would overturn the Tyrian castles. From whence was going to come a nation, ruling far and wide and proud in war for the destruction of Libya: Thus the Fates unfolded. Saturn’s daughter, fearing this and remembering the Old War, which she foremost had waged for her dear Greeks (nor yet even then had the causes of anger and cruel pain perished from her mind; Judgment of Paris remains repositive in her deep mind and the injury to her rejected beauty, and the hated race, and the honors of the seduced Ganymede – Further inflamed by these (things), she was keeping a long way from Latium the Trojans having been thrown on the whole ocean, the leavings of the Greeks and of fierce Achilles, and they were wandering through [or for] many years, having been driven by the Fates around all the oceans. So great was the burden to found the Roman nation.
Wow 🤩
pious Aeneas is b a b i e 🥺
What do I even do with all my love for him??
dido starts dying in book 4 and never finishes meanwhile aeneas has been dying for ages and then is finally dead in book 12 even when he's still alive
also how fucked is it that aeneas’s mom jsut steals aeneas’s kid. and drugs him and hides him in her garden. and it’s fine because she’s a goddess. the goddess who is also drugging a woman into falling in love with aeneas right now. this poem is a horror movie
"I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it — in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom. The days passed, and he lived. The months passed, and I could go a whole day without looking over the precipice of his death. The miracle of a year, then two."
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
that feeling when you say a sculpture in an art museum has "twink energy" and then you realize it's a statue of the roman poet you named yourself after
OH MY GODS WAIT
I WAS RIGHT
that feeling when you say a sculpture in an art museum has "twink energy" and then you realize it's a statue of the roman poet you named yourself after