Oct 14, 2022
“Aeneas’ last action and the narrator’s arresting depiction of it show that the past cannot always be reconstructed to fit the needs of the present. Aeneas may try to do so in the last verses he speaks in the epic, substituting Pallas for himself as Turnus’ killer: “Pallas sacrifices you with this wound, Pallas exacts punishment from your accursed blood” (Pallas te hoc vulnere, Pallas | immolat et poenam scelerato ex sanguine sumit, 12.948–9).”
Aaron M. Seider, Memory in Virgil’s Aeneid: Creating the Past
#how am i supposed to go on with my essay and use this just a source i quote when it has intwerwined and put my guts to exposure how how.#hadn't virgil destroyed me and made me suffer enough.#AENEAS CANNOT ACTUALLY BRING THE BOY BACK AENEAS CANNOT ACTUALLY BRING THE BOY BACK AENEAS CANNOT ACTUALLY FUCKING BRING THE BOY BACK#!!!#words#classics shit.#the aeneid#virgil#aeneid#aeneas#ugh send help#~just a sinner.
