Karen’s Reviews > Lavinia > Status Update

Ascanius, Telemachus, Neoptolemus; disappointing/awful failsons are apparently a tale as old as time.

“If a man believes his virtue can be proved only in war,” he said to Ascanius, “then he sees time spent on anything else as wasted. Farming, if he’s a farmer—government, if he’s a ruler—worship, the acts of religion—all inferior to prowess in war.”

"They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?"