when he attempts to avoid the tragic fate that has been prophesied to him and in doing so only serves to fulfill it 😩😳🥵

do you think when aeneas was a young boy, anchises took him into the city, to see a marching band. and he said "aeneas, when you grow up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned—"

“haec finis Priami fatorum, hic exitus illum sorte tulit Troiam incensam et prolapsa videntem Pergama, tot quondam populis terrisque superbum regnatorem Asiae.”

this was the end of Priam’s fate, this death took him in accordance with destiny; while he saw Troy ablaze and the citadel fallen, once a proud ruler of so many peoples and lands of Asia. — Virgil, The Aeneid (II)

i know in my heart that in a contemporary retelling of the aeneid, both turnus and camilla would be the most absolutely feral 17-year-old cross country running bros you've ever met

me whenever @thoodleoo​ begins a post with “new unhinged aeneid thought”

Art from a uni project I worked on - Literature heroes crying! I love drawing these 💖

Dante with Paolo and Francesca from Inferno

Patroclus and Achilles from the Iliad

Raskolnikov and Sonja from Crime and Punishment

Aeneas and Dido in the underworld from the Aeneid

at a bar reading the aeneid

I've peaked

@yarrayora can u provide a source for this btw because i havent stopped thinking about it

for reference the aeneid is also more yuri than the iliad

Okay gamers!!! Start biting!!!!!

The Bomb by Florence and the Machine is SOOOOOO Dido and Aeneas it makes me sick I’m losing my mind I-

when a line of dactylic hexameter has 18 whole vowels. babygirl you are so spondee…

nearly cried over book 10 of the aeneid in public today

the best part of the aeneid is that aeneas did NOT put his whole pussy into getting to italy or even half of it. he limped through his fate with barely a quarter of his pussy and cried about it the whole time and by god can i relate. go king give us as little as you can

I think aeneas would blast welcome to the black parade

He ‘answered her grief with grief and her love with love.’

Aeneid, Virgil

Translation by David West

Leaving out the url for the sake of being nice but im sorry this is like the worst possible take. I'm so sorry. I have never read song of Achilles and never intend to but Madeline Miller did so much damage. Leave the aeneid ALONE do not let this become collateral damage I beg of you

So I've been reading along with Aeneid Daily (very good, do recommend) which uses AS Kline's translation and then I picked up Robert Fagles' translation from the library yesterday and I find the differences interesting. The Kline translation is more accessible IMO but the Fagles has better drama and poetry - I like the Fagles more but I find it a little harder to parse than the Kline. Fagles' style is also very nostalgic for me because I was obsessed with his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey when I was in high school like for real I carried the Iliad around with me and took notes on it in a spiral notebook whenever I was not doing any classwork. So recognizing his style with the Aeneid kind of throws me back into when I got interested in classical work to begin with.