If the Aeneid has a million fans, I'm one of them

If the Aeneid has one fan, I'm that one

If the Aeneid has no fans, my soul, indignant, has fled down to the underworld with a sigh

I think if you look at any one section of the Aeneid too long it remoulds your brain and you start to see every single word as an intensely powerful literary device and all the poem connects together

Virgil writing for Turnus ‘ille humilis supplex oculos dextramque precantem protendens’ in 12.930-1 and then writing ‘Aeneas volvens oculos dextramque repressit’ in 12.939 is making me go absolutely feral this Thursday morning.

I love my man Virgil but sometimes,,, sometimes I feel Lavinia deserves at least a couple of lines

Juno throughout the Aeneid: today I will cause problems on purpose

Juno in the Aeneid: am I the drama?

I get that the description of Venus wearing platform boots in Aeneid 1 is probably full of symbolism about setting up a tragedy, but maybe Venus (a god) just has no idea how mortals dress

Jupiter: He will build walls for his people and establish their way of life

Rome if Marcellus had survived to succeed Augustus:

Yeah sure dido and aeneas probably ~knew each other biblically~ in the cave as my old teacher would say, but it would be much funnier if dido literally just saw a storm, took it as a sign that they were married, and just didn’t tell aeneas.

Virgil describing the death of Murranus in book 12:

Me translating Virgil: