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Anghraine ([personal profile] anghraine) wrote2024-03-04 03:06 pm
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Tumblr crosspost (28 October 2020)

I didn’t manage to stick it out and finish the Metamorphoses yesterday (in fairness, I had a three-hour phone call) BUT I just finished it now!! All 470-odd pages.

The summaries of the Aeneid were … well, clearly summaries of the Aeneid, but at least easy to breeze through, the pages arguing for vegetarianism were not breezy but at least unexpected and interesting, and “The Deification of Caesar” was honestly kind of hilarious (but reinforced Augustus == earthly Jupiter with all the complicatedness that entails). And then there’s the conclusion, lol:

if a sacred poet
Has any power to prophesy the truth,
Throughout the ages I will live on in fame.

Well, he’s not wrong!

Tagged: #he has a whole stanza about how he'll be remembered forever and i kind of love it