#aeneid blogging

[figbian]

everything that has gone wrong has done so bcs i dont keep an aeneid on me at all times to perform the sortes vergilianae

[fweet-prince]

from a conversation with @butchhamlet

[gennsoup]

On they went then in darkness, through the lonely Shadowing night, a nowhere of deserted dwellings, Dim phantasmal reaches where Pluto is king-- Like following a forest path by the hovering light Of a moon that clouds and unclouds at Jupiter's whim, While the colours of the world pall in the gloom.

Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

[literarydarling]

I was so happy when we were assigned to read The Aeneid for school. (We don't usually do that, not in my country and small af college in some small af province in the middle of nowhere)

[warthogreporter]

Thinking about my favorite mythological figures, I guess one connecting thread between my top three is self sacrifice.

Tezcatlipoca was sacrificed every year at Toxcatl and used his own foot as bait to lure out a monster to create the world. Odin hung himself from Yggdrasil. Ghatotkacha purposefully made himself a target for the Vasavi Shakti so it wouldn't be used on Arjuna.

This doesn't work as well extended to other mythological figures I like however. Beowulf fits, though there it's not necessarily a good thing since it leaves the people without their king. The dragon doesn't get enough character to fit into things like this.

Aeneas wanted to effectively sacrifice himself and die at Troy, but fate instead demands others be sacrificed for him and his destiny, a role that consumes him. But he would have gladly sacrificed himself for Troy instead of founding Rome.

You could sort of stretch and say that Ivar the Boneless sacrificed his reputation by making peace with King Ella as part of his long con to ultimately get revenge, but it's not a sticking point of the narrative.

[livyamelarts]

Sketchy Virgil

I will be uploading any and all my art here, including silly sketches, cause let's be honest ... how else will a college student who doesn't draw as part of her major be able to actually upload consistently? 😩

Anyway, here is the amazing Virgil, highly referenced from the cover of the Aeneid, which we were reading in class so it happened to be in front of me. 😆

Have a lovely day! And, try not to burn Troy while you're at it. Or, do. It might inspire another classic like the Aeneid 👀

[lastwave]

dudes will pick the golden bough and not even stay to see if it sprouts another fruit like it should if the auspices are favorable. not my issue tho ill take him into the underworld either way ✌️ -sybil at cumae, probably

[kbkirtley]

Mythology is one of my favorite styles of storytelling and has been really influential in how I view writing and storytelling in my own work. I think our modern superhero stories are in a lot of ways direct descendants of the stories of gods and heroes of antiquity, something you can see in how frequently those same Greek or Roman or Norse characters show back up in superhero stories. Centuries down the road, I think the characters who are most likely to still be remembered by future generations are likely to be our superheroes who in many ways are our modern mythologies. Superman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, I think these characters will have staying power beyond any other fictional characters of the last hundred years. Because of this, I disagree with the idea that these stories are less artistic or have less substance. When we talk about superhero stories, we’re not just talking to the current culture, but to future generations as well. I think this is one of the major reasons why superhero stories are so important, because it’s not just the characters that are larger than life, I believe the stories themselves will prove to be so as well.

[academia-archetype]

Look what just came in!!!

I have to read my Classical Mythology textbook for my Classic Myth literature class, but I also get to read The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid!

This one looks so good and it came in a beautiful hardcover!

The Aeneid is, unfortunately, a paperback. There was a hardcover option, but this was the only option with, GET THIS, LATIN!

I'm so excited for this class!

[didoofcarthage]

Hi, I love your blog! I was wondering, and I only thought of it because of your username and of her melancholic aria, if you knew of any paintings or illustrations related to Purcell's "When I Am Laid In Earth" or even just Dido's death in general? Thank you!😊

I'm so glad that you like my blog! I love Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (it was one of the inspirations for my url). I get "When I Am Laid in Earth" stuck in my head often, but it's too high for me to sing, sadly...

I don't have any specific recommendations for illustrations of Purcell's opera, but I do have some favorite depictions of Dido's death, which are mostly inspired by Vergil’s account in the Aeneid:

My favorite paintings are probably Henry Fuseli's Dido in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art (I like the inclusion of Iris cutting Dido's hair to release her soul) and Giambattista Tiepolo's Death of Dido in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (this one is actually the header on my blog). I also like Joshua Reynolds' Death of Dido, which is in the British Royal Collection, and a work in the Getty Museum that is attributed to Rubens' workshop.

Additionally, my favorite print is an etching by Stefano della Bella after Parmigiano of Dido Killing Herself, which, like the Rubens workshop painting, shows Dido with Aeneas' sword in the moment before the suicide.

I hope that you enjoy some of these works too! As a bonus, my favorite depiction of Dido before her death is Joseph Mallord William Turner's Dido Building Carthage. Jean-Bernard Restout's series of oil sketches for a tapestry design are also good, if not as complete as a finished painting: Dido Sacrificing to Juno in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, three works of Dido and Aeneas in the LACMA collection, and The Death of Dido, which was up for auction by Sotheby’s in 2019. 

[solidsnakesfiftyhuskies]

the relationship between me and quiet metalgearsolid is just like ursula k le guin and lavinia from the aeneid

[tenderloincherub]

i have to write an essay about the aeneid for next week and i’m torn between 2 topics:  a. images of fire in the night in scenes of destruction as allusions to the iliad and b. the coninuous return to troy, the reiterations of new troys related to the cyclic time of Virgil. my favorite is (a) but idk if it’ll be okay because it can derive in my essay being not only about the aeneid but the iliad as well and that’s... so not the point, the subject is latin literatura for god’s sake. but like, idk what else could i do with those fire-light-night images that i loved in the book. i also wanted them to work as some sort of locus amoenus in the sense of having the same function, delivering a specific scenery that somehow detonates the scene of destruction, if that makes sense¿

but like i have no bibliography for (a) and i have two possible books for (b) and like, that’d be easier, but i also know it’d actually be the easiest to do what appeals more to me and that’s (a) but like, i don’t want to get far from the assignment with the iliad stuff + idk where to look for somo virgilianist on the topic.

jelp

[yourbleedingh3art]

[katabay]

THE SHERIFF AND GUY OF GISBORNE

uh. try to stay with me for a second. so incest motifs are a huge part of medieval lit. you see it in arthuriana cycles, you see it in romances, it's a whole thing.

Incest and the Medieval Imagination, Elizabeth Archibald

so robin hood. both adaptions and the text itself, tend to get interesting with guy of gisborne. and I will say that while I found the media being discussed in this text absolutely fucking insufferable to watch, the discussion on it was delicious, impeccable, show stopping

Mouvance, Greenwood, and Gender in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Brian J Levy and Lesley Coote

and with regards to discussions on the origin text (which I love and adore forever)

Horseplay: Robin Hood, Guy of Gisborne, and the Neg(oti)ation of the Bestial, Stuart Kane

we're. getting to the point, I promise. guy of gisborne and the sheriff in my own "adaption" are not cousins, but brothers in law (fucked up brothers in law are my thing over on my other blog. brutus and cassius? I'm there. caligula and lepidus? all over that, baby!) because I'm aiming for an adjacent transgression.

on the topic of adjacent transgressions and guy's comment in this comic about cannibalism: there's an overlap in various genres of literature, predominantly in branches of horror and tragedy: between cannibalism and incest. (additionally! a lot of texts will take on christian subtexts and allusions, so there's a bonus homoerotic cannibalism discussion happening wrt communion that I'll get into in the future) it's about. chomping. the teeth, you know.

Managing Monsters, Marina Warner

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

there's a 100% chance I will revise the sheriff's design at some point, but I wanted to draw the flowers exploding out of the spine so bad

AND FINALLY, the neck focus on guy is half due to his fate in his origin tale (beheaded) and half my own invention: I girl-with-a-green-ribboned him. a little narrative necromancy, if you will.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

I have been one of the scourge war's loudest anons and have probably used the 💅 more than anyone else in the world over the last two weeks of the scourge war. I was responsible for a lot of pro mustache propaganda, the aeneid description which, well, I was proud of anyway, a lot of repetition of things along the lines of "He has thick thighs and a mustache, are you fools blind??!" and a lot of scourge propaganda. It has been a great time for the g1 scourge nation, and one that still has time to grow greater yet.

The Scourge War draws to a close in just under two hours. The G1 Scourge fans started out as very few but we now have not only rivalled but eventually came to defeat ROTB Scourge and the other Scourges available. We occupy 30% of the poll and the next two hours will decide everything. It is all still to play for.

If you have still not voted by now, you know the drill. Thick thighs, mustache, nails, bat wings, etc. Unique, hot, clearly the best. If you'd rather have basically Nemesis Prime or tetanus after all this time and pro g1 scourge propoganda, what a fool you are. Observe the true Unicronian blue beauty of G1 Scourge. And vote for him, because you want to and if you don't you will come to wish you had- as someone who once would have rejected him myself, I know I would regret not voting for him.

I hope that at least G1 Scourge can have a greater fandom presence after the Scourge war. G1 Scourge fans and voters, fighting alongside you has been an honour. Honourable mention to the IDW Scourge voters, the one ROTB voter that regretted their choice later, the SG Rodimus fans, Wreck-Gar fans and the other allies of the G1 Scourge side in this war. Also the person that said 'I dive into G1 Scourge's cervix.' Pure poetry.

G1 Scourge is beautiful. G1 Scourge is breedable. G1 Scourge is the superior Scourge. I have every faith G1 Scourge can and will win this.

G1 SCOURGE FOR THE WIN 💅💅💅💅

Anons from the final moments before the war

Them's fightin words about my knockoff nemesis prime bf, but nonetheless, seeing the chaos unfold has been an experience I wouldn't trade for all the universe.

I look forward to seeing the unicronians blog.

The fact that I had to start answering anons in clusters to begin with is still insane to me

And it has been an honor seeing this through to the end with all of you.

And, of course...

And the universe shall rejoice.

All hail g1 scourge's triumph!!

[spineless-lobster]

(Decided to make an intro post bc why not)

Hello!!! I’m lobz (she/they) and I’m an aroace lesbian! I post about whatever my brain has decided to latch onto and also other silly stuff!!! (Interests under cut wooo!)

Right now I’m mainly posting about hades (hence my entire blog layout lol) but I love anything to do with greek mythology! Other greek mythology related media I like are the song of achilles and epic the musical (I’ve also read the iliad and the odyssey, I promise to read the aeneid at one point)

I’m a big fan of the six idiots and their shows + movie (BBC ghosts, yonderland, bill, horrible histories) I’ve definitely been blogging less about them but I don’t love them any less lol

I’m also really into the book in memoriam by alice winn (READ IT! READ IT NOW!!!) and I mainly like to read classics

I’m really into history, art history, fashion history, wwi all that fun stuff so you’ll see that occasionally. Otherwise you’ll see me reblog whatever funny stuff comes across my dash lol

My banner gif was made by itspapillonnoir!

The “I 💙 patroclus” blinkie is made by arcangelise!