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Don't worry about it Lavinia love, in a few thousand years Ursula Le Guin is gonna come and write the only good modern mythological retelling to come out of the 2010s for you

Always had half an eye on this Alecto sequence in book 7 juuuust in case it ends up being relevant to Alecto the Ninth (whenever ATN may be...)

My Roman history isn't good enough for the parade of Roman spirits I need to go have a neb in the notes

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