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Book II - Aeneas tells of the Trojan Horse (which doesn't make them out to be chumps like the pop-culture version does) and the sack of Troy. Aeneas gets a sign from the gods that his fate is not to die here, but to escape and start over, so he takes his family out of the city. Not everybody makes it, but they also meet up with other survivors, so at least they'll have a starter population wherever they end up.
— Mar 03, 2019 07:02PM
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Ron
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I'm afraid I'm one of the modern readers who, having no personal connection to Rome nor fresh memories of its Civil War, find little of interest in the latter half of the epic. Camilla's pretty badass though. In fact, as long as we're paying homage to Homer I'd have liked to have seen more aristeias (aristeii?) and more of those humanizing personal details about the defeated.
— Mar 27, 2019 11:36PM
Ron
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Through Book VI, wherein Aeneas visits the underworld and Virgil enumerates the virtues of Rome.
— Mar 13, 2019 10:56PM
Ron
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Book III - Aeneas recounts his people's wandering across the sea. They fight with harpies, they go to Crete but are driven off by disease, they find Helen and a mini-Troy, and they're warned that they have a long way to travel before they will have their site to settle.
— Mar 04, 2019 11:24PM
Ron
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Aeneas (a Trojan commander from the Iliad) and several ships worth of people are sailing to resettle in what will someday be Rome. They pass Sicily but then get caught in a nasty storm and almost die. There is, however, a big difference between almost dead and all the way dead, and they all wash up on the shore of Phonecia. Queen Dido, herself something of an exile, welcomes them.
— Mar 03, 2019 06:56PM
