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Just like bees 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

I love being able to see in this where Virgil pulled from Homer, but also being able to see very clearly where Dante would pull from when he took bits from Virgil... I LOVE YOU LITERARY TRADITION 🙌

Look I know we're on the Trojan side here Virgil but I don't know that being 'the guy who sparred with Paris' is really a flex for poor Dares. Paris was not routinely praised for his martial prowess lmao

Was going to make a joke about how the Nisus introduction kinda makes it sound like he's known for being gay then I remembered what happens to him and Euryalus 😞 #mybad

I try my hardest to never say classics are boring bc it's such a trite complaint but I have to admit I find the games segments in ALL THREE of these epics so fucking boring lmao 😭😭 sorry all

It's fun to see references to Athenian drama (Bacchae, Oresteia) in an epic actually... because obviously the Homeric ones far predate classical Athens. No matter what Shakespeare seemed to think in Troilus and Cressida lol

Them just doing all the Odyssey episodes again is killing me... 'yeah yeah Charybdis we know her. We sailed past Circe's island. You remember Circe. Here's a guy to tell you about Polyphemus.' skdjsjd oh Virgil. Why

Andromache saying Ascanius reminds her of Astayanax 😞😞😞😞😞

Killing Pyrrhus beside Achilles's grave is exactly the type of on the nose nonsense one can except from Orestes lmao

Wait. Are Dante's talking and bleeding bushes inspired by THESE talking bushes. I forgot about this