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Sort of horrible that the one (?) time Venus actually appears to him properly is when she brings him armour. However I love that Aeneas has fire breathing horses AND a flamethrowing helmet no wonder he won

'Pallas, my one hope and comfort' cool! hope nothing horrible happens to him then :)

Love how Aeneas has a lovely chat with the River Tiber while Achilles and the River Scamander were absolutely desperate to paste one another

Oh for fucks sake I forgot about this mini catalogue of ships type of thing. Catalogue Of Some Random Blokes. At least there's Camilla

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

THIRD bees (not a simile but a portent this time)

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