#Aeneid

[ladyvictoriart]

The Latin princess Lavinia was made the object of a war between Trojan refugees, lead by Aeneas, and those loyal to the Rutulian king Turnus. A skilled priestess in her own right, Lavinia maintained a special relationship with the gods of her homeland.

[bambiilooza]

TURNUS POV:

don't ask me why he's not wearing armour idk

[goldenzingy46]

idk if this is anything but you can kind of view aeneas as a man that's unstuck from time. he sees the ghost of hector. he takes his eyes off his wife and she's now a ghost. he finds carthage, a city that won't be founded for hundreds of years. he carries the future of rome, he sees people not yet born when he's in the underworld. and so forth

[fluentisonus]

^ vergil writing dido & aeneas. to me

[dearestaeneas]

thinking about how the aeneid is accused of just being the iliad and the odyssey. do you not see that that’s on purpose? how history can only be written by the victors and aeneas is very much not that? that the aeneid is about how he loses his humanity to be a tool for the glory of others? that aeneas forgets what he sees on the shield so that he, and all of italy, becomes trapped in a cycle of not being able to learn from the past, because his past never actually mattered?

[ditoob]

I may have a problem

[wandering-a-ding]

you're serving cunt. you're doomed by the narrative and you're serving cunt.

[dontforgetukraine]

Illustrations by Anatolii Bazylevych.

More illustrations from Anatolii Bazylevych to Ivan Kotlyarevsky’s poem Aeneid (1982) can be found here.

[firnen-the-teragram-teabag]

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido Artist: Giambattista Tiepolo (Italian [Venetian], 1696-1770) Date: 1757 Genre: mythological painting, literary painting (illustration of Aeneid Book I) Period: Rococo Movement: Classicism Medium: fresco Dimensions: 230 cm (90.5 in) high x 240 cm (94.4 in) wide Location: Villa Valmarana ai Nani, Vicenza, Italy

[blue-lotus333]

Hunger Games sim but with epic cycle characters! (pt 2)

everybody fightinggg

lol

go to sleep bitch

🔥

WHAT? LMAO

There are two types of people-

nooo

?????

everyone is helping each other yayy

COUNT YOUR DAYS, PRIAM.

noooo don't kill yourself, you're so sexy aha

NOOOOOO

last days (everybody else died smh)

HELEN WINS THE GAME YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYy

[illustratus]

The Shadow of Hector Appears to Aeneas or The Dream of Aeneas

by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

[bambiilooza]

deified aeneas concept

this is my new wallpaper :D

[ladyvictoriart]

Princess Camilla of the Volsci, a fearsome warrior trained in warfare by the Amazons, aided her ally King Turnus in his war against the Trojan refugees. During the war she was slain by Arruns, a Trojan ally whom the Goddess Diana then killed in revenge.

[fluentisonus]

speaking of polydorus. playing around w embroidery

[cinematic-literature]

Gladiator II (2024) by Ridley Scott

Hanno recites some verses upon Caracalla's request of commenting the fight he's just won.

The original verses are from Book VI (126-129) of Aeneid: they're part of a prophecy Aeneas receives from the Cumaean Sybil, priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, near Naples

Facilis descensus Averno;

Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;

Sed revocare

Gradum superasque evadere ad auras,

Hoc opus, hic labor est

The English translation is

Easy is the descent to Avernus;

Night and day the door of gloomy Dis stands open;

But to recall

One's steps and pass out to the upper air,

This is the task, this is the toil

Dante Alighieri took the concept of Dis (originally Pluto, the god presiding Avernus, the pagan afterlife) and used it as a synonym for Lucifer; as a matter of fact, the lowest part of hell in the Divina Commedia is called "città di Dite" (city of Dis), in opposition to "città di Dio", that is Heaven.