#Aeneid

[ditoob]

I may have a problem

[fluentisonus]

speaking of polydorus. playing around w embroidery

[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]

[illustratus]

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

by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

[worldhistoryfacts]

in Virgil's Aeneid, two fighters -- Dares and Entellus -- face off in a boxing match. Here’s a Roman-era mosaic from the floor of a French villa showing the two fighters, along with the bull that Entellus won and then sacrificed to the gods with a single blow to the skull:

A French artist tried to depict the scene in the 1500s, with much less fidelity to the original description (what’s up with those clubs?):

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The history of ancient boxing -- and its modern revival -- here:

[aeneiddaily]

Aeneid Daily: because to my knowledge no one’s done it yet, and if I can get even one more person to read the Aeneid, I’ll die happy!

In the fashion of Ovid Daily and e-pistulae, Aeneid Daily emails you Vergil’s greatest work in daily chunks of roughly 100 lines each. Each post will include the selected lines in English, as translated by A.S. Kline, as well as in Latin, as accessed from thelatinlibrary.com. I’ve also included some links to helpful resources for first-time readers, as I think knowledge of the poem’s historical and literary context really helps it come alive.

The newsletter is scheduled to start on June 1st, 2023, and run until the second week of September. Subscribe for boats, battles, bleeding bushes, journeys to the Underworld, women warriors, unspecified dirty activities in a cave, arms, men, and, of course, pietas.

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[catilinas]

emily gowers paper that sounds cool as hell

[jondrettegirls]

Oresteia by Robert Icke | The Aeneid by Vergil (Tr. Shadi Bartsch) | It’s a Quality of the Gods by Suniti Namjoshi

[wolfythewitch]

Holy Shit Aeneas's description of the final hours of troy is harrowing. Priam's death? The city burning up? The fall of his comrades? Hector's ghost, covered in wounds handing him the household gods? Oh my god. Ohhhh my god

[hercorrupterofwords]

aeneas for a commission!

[fluentisonus]

something something the way aeneas is constantly derided for being feminine & being a bad father & being a bad leader -- by the gods themselves sometimes -- and all of these things being explicitly tied to his avoidance of founding rome, something something the creation of the roman people necessitating the creation of an ideal of roman masculinity that must be exemplified in its leader & father, something something the slow erasure of aeneas' sense of self over the course of the poem, the increase in violence & decrease in tears & other feelings

[catoswound]

do u all remember that sad and wet poll a couple weeks ago. though i love odysseus and want him to win at everything (including a poll about being sad and wet) i must admit that aeneas gives off sadder and wetter vibes. like he's crying about it. hes literally in tears about being half drowned

[ditoob]

You know, for all that Aeneas claims to hate Odysseus, you’d be hard pressed to find two characters in the Epic Cycle who have more to relate to eachother about. Sure they fought on different sides of the war but nobody, except for perhaps Aeneas, could truly understand what Odysseus went through.

While if they ever saw eachother Aeneas would most certainly try to kill him, I think they’d have a lot to learn of eachother if the conditions had just been a little different. I suppose it’s one of the many tragedies of war, two fathers so similar, yet so different.

(Anyway on that Aeneas and his crew flipping off Ithaka while Odysseus is still at Kalyspo’s will never stop being funny to me)

[illustratus]

Aeneas and the Sibyl - (Anonymous Artist)

[aingeli]

dante and virgil by me!