#a foundational story of homeric scale designed to inspire the people of rome
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*twirling my hair around my finger* hes just soooooo burdened by his sense of duty and the insurmountable weight of being a mere man written into the role of a myth
#yes this is about aeneas yes im reading more aeneid#heres the thing about the aeneid that really gets me#like we're told from the very beginning of the story that this is a tale of how rome comes to be#a foundational story of homeric scale designed to inspire the people of rome#but then we meet aeneas and he's literally Just Some Guy#like he's a single father and he just lost his dad and he would really like to not be on this boat right now#also this is literally the same thing for turnus except instead of the sense of duty it's the divine rage of juno#like hes on the battlefield hes on his knees his Just Some Guy who didnt really ask for this#and heres aeneas heres the hero heres Rome Itself#but turnus looks into his eyes and for the shortest most desperate moment he sees himself#aeneidposting
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