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1. Latin.
2. I'd love to be able to read THE AENEID in Latin.
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so-soThis could have been a really interesting spiritual successor (at the time) to Homer, but this read more like Roman Empire propaganda than an original work.
Virgil does have *some* original ideas and portrayals of the characters and events in the overall story, but it still feels like you're better off reading the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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definitely with something in mind, I can't browse, it's no good for me, 😂 😂 if I did, I'd come out with the whole store .
Mind you, that doesn't work either, I have 3 translations of The Aeneid, and let's not even get to how many versions of Frankenstein or Romo and Juliet I have - ummm, 7 for the first and 5 for the second, so yeah, no browsing for me 😂
so-soThere were parts where the poetry was moving, but minus: the story of Dido; the sea voyage Aeneas has; and some sobering war scenes, this mostly read like a piece of propaganda, but I would read again. This time I read Robert Fagles verse translation, I found it to be an easy read.
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so-soI liked this for its philosophical insights and how the setting comes to life in Lavinia‘s day to day, and for this I would read again.
But wasn't sure in how at times the story is contrived in how it unfolds and for having characters that are all good (Aeneas) or all bad (Turnus (and later Acsanius)) – and so to me feels less real.
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Beautifully written but I didn't really enjoy it that much, sadly.
I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shores of Lavinium; and a great pounding he took by land and sea at the hands of the heavenly gods because of the fierce and unforgetting anger of Juno. #firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl
pickLavinia, daughter of a king, promised to one, destined for another, & the future of Rome.
Loved this so much, but I hate that little blurb on the front. This story is about so much more than Lavinia‘s marriage to Aeneus & the war between her people and the Trojans. It‘s about the power a woman could wield, about how much control we have over our own stories, about the role that fate plays in our lives, & the beginnings of an empire. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
