#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

[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.

[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:

[jondrettegirls]

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

[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

[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

[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.

[apis-vergilii]

Sculpture of Vergil by Gabriel Jules Thomas. I appreciate how the entire art world has decided, with no evidence to go on except the sound of his poems, that he was an exquisitely elegant pretty boy with great hands.

[illustratus]

Aeneas and the Sibyl - (Anonymous Artist)