Status Updates From Aeneid: Hero, War, Humanity

This battle seems interminable.

The description of the images on the shield are so vivid as to imply that Vulcan magically illustrated the future of Rome in lifelike color and motion.

An action-packed tale, part myth, part legend, part history, filled with family feuds and hopes for peace and prosperity. The refugees from Troy, led by Aeneas, seek only a home where they can finally feel safe, where they can raise their children in peace. Ancient history or current events?

“Each of us is purified according to the way that we have lived.”
Vergil seems to anticipate the theology of purgatory.

“Possunt quia posse videntur.” Latin, meaning “They are able because they believe they are able.”
Could this be the origin of the moral of The Little Engine That Could “?

The funeral games: favorite part of the book so far!