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illustratus · 23 days

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

by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

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firnen-the-teragram-teabag · 9 days

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lesbiandardevil · 3 months

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stop me if youve heard this one before .. speluncam dido dux et troianus eandem deveniunt

#based on absolutely nothing did no research idgaf #they look like this To Me #anyway. . i would fumble you in every universe kinda guy #aeneid posting again #the aeneid #virgil's aeneid #aeneas #dido #dido and aeneas #my art

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life-imitates-art-far-more · 10 months

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Léon Cogniet (1794-1880) "Métabus et Camille" In Virgil's Aeneid, Camilla is the daughter of King Metabus and Casmilla. Driven from his throne, Metabus is chased into the wilderness by armed Volsci, his infant daughter in his hands. The river Amasenus blocked his path, and, fearing for his child's welfare, Metabus bound her to a spear. He promised Diana that Camilla would be her servant, a warrior virgin. He then safely threw her to the other side, and swam across to retrieve her. The baby Camilla was suckled by a mare, and once her "first firm steps had [been] taken, the small palms were armed with a keen javelin; her sire a bow and quiver from her shoulder slung." She was raised in her childhood to be a huntress and kept the companionship of her father and the shepherds in the hills and woods.

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newenglandfaerie · 6 months

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i don't know how to explain Vergil to people who haven't read him in latin. for one, the thing you have to understand is that he is one of the greatest poets of all time AND one of the most autistic writers of all time (and that isn't a small club; shout out to Emily Dickinson). he was shy and awkward and before he got famous practically reclusive, but this man could hyperfixate on writing poetry like nobody's business, and he was 100% going to tell you about his special interest in bee keeping (he was also exceptionally gay even by Roman standards).

he spent the last decade of his life working on the Aeneid, not because it took that long to write, but because he was incessantly tinkering with every single line to make it as perfect as possible, and when he realized he was going to die with a dozen or so lines still unresolved, he (supposedly) requested that it should be burned rather than published with imperfections.

the Aeneid is impressive as a work of literature even in translation, but when you read it in Latin, you see what he was doing with those ten years, because literally every line is a poem in its own right. you could write a short essay on any given line of the Aeneid, because he is doing interesting and meaningful stuff with Every Single Line. the Aeneid is not so much a poem as it is the grand sum of 9,896 tiny one-line poems all playing off of and subverting and reinforcing each other.

Vergil really was just built different, and there is a reason other writers have obsessed over him for the past two thousand years

#classics #vergil #virgil #latin #latin poetry #virgil's aeneid #the aeneid #tagamemnon #autism

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tragediambulante · 6 months

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Venus and Aeneas, Corrado Giaquinto, about 1735

#art history #art #italian art #18th century #greek mythology #ancient greece #roman mythology #painting #corrado giaquinto #venus #aeneas #aphrodite #virgil's aeneid #aeneid #palazzo del quirinale

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illiummmmno · 13 days

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Achaemenides actually had the best survival strategy out of all of Odysseus' crew.

I too would spend months crying myself to sleep on an island praying the God's would turn me into a sheep.

Also the bit with Aeneas saving him I guess.

#tagamemnon #the aeneid #virgil's aeneid #Odyssey #odysseus #Achaemenides #Aeneas #the odyssey

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iamf0rtis · 2 months

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so today in latin class we were reading our textbook, specifically a section that was similar to a passage in the Aeneid where the ghost of Aeneas’s first wife, Creusa, basically tells him to move on from her and shit. which is interesting on its own but my brain immediately jumped to battle of the labyrinth.

something about Nico summoning Bianca. in our textbook it kinda combines the idea of Odysseus summoning ghosts from the odyssey and the speech Creusa gave and. that feels a lot like what happened in that scene with Nico. Bianca telling him that he needs to forgive Percy. that he needs to move on without her.

“quid tantum insano iuvat indulgere dolori, o dulchis coniunx?” ; “What does it help to give in to such great insanity, o sweet partner?” (Aeneid Book 2 Lines 776-777)

“lacrimas dilectae pelle Creusae.” ; “Push away your tears for your beloved Creusa.” (Aeneid Book 2 Line 784)

“‘Why didn’t you answer me sooner?’ he cried. ‘I’ve been trying for months!’

‘I was hoping you’d give up.’

‘Give up?’ He sounded heartbroken. ‘How can you say that? I’m trying to save you!’

‘You can’t, Nico. Don’t do this. Percy is right.’” (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Battle of the Labyrinth pages 166-167)

…all im saying is rick is a literary genius and i have horrible brain rot