Anghraine

You all are probably tired of hearing about the Aeneid, but I just have to share this bit of an incredibly cool speech that Juno gets:

“But if my powers
Are not great enough, why should I hesitate
To seek help from any source whatever?
If I cannot sway Heaven, I will awaken Hell!”

Tagged: #not at all favorably portrayed but unmistakably badass #also i like venus here but juno's call-out of her re: paris was very satisfying

Finally finished the Aeneid! And this section included the truly amazing:

Murranus was boasting of his ancient lineage
Stretching back to Latin kings, when Aeneas
Hit him with a huge stone

Tagged: #rip virgil you deserve it for those three lines alone

Whining, but:

Virgil is cool, but … ngl, while I understand why it’s important to read some Classical lit as background for early modern British lit—this is why I took a painful course in Classical rhetoric—I am really tired of reading things that are not early modern British lit.

Tagged: #i've done literary wandering from greece to italy to germany and they're all cool places i would like to visit irl #but at this point it's just... send me back to england where i belong T_T