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firnen-the-teragram-teabag · 24 days

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fluentisonus · 2 months

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speaking of polydorus. playing around w embroidery

#tried to give the second one a sort of meat texture around the veins/roots but idk that it worked out haha.#i think it just looks too crowded but i only had two colors so oh well #thoughts #my art #polydoruscore #also the only bit of text i could fit lol sorry abt leaving off the verb etc #aeneid

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illustratus · 1 month

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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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aeneiddaily · 1 year

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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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#txt #tagamemnon #vergil #virgil #aeneid #the aeneid

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catilinas · 11 months

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emily gowers paper that sounds cool as hell

#read later #aeneid #trees instead of gravestones #beeps

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wolfythewitch · 10 months

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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

#Priam's death specifically is Fucking me up #aeneid

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worldhistoryfacts · 2 months

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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?):

{Buy me a coffee} {WHF} {Medium} {Looking Through the Past}

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

#history #ancient #rome #aeneid #boxing #sports

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mismaria · 1 year

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dante and virgil by me!

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jondrettegirls · 2 months

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

#god as parent etc etc #i told u guys i was gonna remake my quote post from literally j the other day #on my own.#quotes #aeneid #oresteia #the aeneid #the oresteia #elektea #agamemnon #aeneas #vergil #quoteblr

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didoofcarthage · 3 months

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Madame de Saint-Huberty in the Role of Dido by Anne Vallayer-Coster

French, 1785

oil on canvas

National Museum of Women in the Arts

#Dido #mythology #Aeneid #Anne Vallayer-Coster #Anne Vallayer Coster #female artist #woman artist #French #baroque #National Museum of Women in the Arts #painting #art

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doob-or-something · 6 days

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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)

#odyssey #the odyssey #the aeneid #virgil's aeneid #aeneid #odysseus #aeneas #epic cycle #troy #trojan war #greek mythology #tagamemnon #roman mythology #ulysses #the iliad #iliad #homeric epics

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fluentisonus · 1 year

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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

#they're perfect for each other <3. or something #thoughts #aeneid #also obligatory ''dido's long dying'' mention here

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illustratus · 1 month

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The Dream of Aeneas by Salvator Rosa

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lionofchaeronea · 1 year

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Illustration of a scene from Book 12 of the Aeneid: the physician Iapyx removes an arrowhead from the thigh of Aeneas, while Aeneas' mother Venus and weeping son Ascanius/Iulus look on. Fresco from the House of Sirico, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

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catilinas · 11 months

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aeneid 1.421-9 trans. a.s. kline / thomas biggs, poetics of the first punic war

#aeneid daily #still on yesterday’s whoops #when the hashtag architecture of anachronism hits #eventual blorbopolis tag #aeneid #beeps

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wolfythewitch · 10 months

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KEEPS PACE WITH TRIPPING STEPS

#i am NOT okay #i am not #ehat the hell #what is wrong with you #i saw another version of this that was like “taking two steps for his father's one” or something like that #insane #virgil why would you do this to me #Aeneid

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