#latinfandom

I did something. ¿? El fandom latino es el mejor, dudes.

Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii

son: help me daddy laocoön: i've got problems of my own

Salvete! I just want to take a second to step back and realize that Aphrodite, or Venus, basically caused the Trojan war. And the Aeneid is just her trying to fix everything. However, I wonder if she would have helped another "hero" found Rome if she never gave birth to Aeneas. The war was Aphrodite's fault because Discordia threw an apple in the middle of the three goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. They asked Paris of Troy which goddess was the fairest goddess. If Aphrodite had not offered to Paris the most beautiful woman, which is Helen of Sparta, Agamemnon would not have waged war on the Trojans. Helen was Agamemnon's brother's wife. I guess I feel bad for Venus because none of that drama had anything to do with Aeneas or his father, and she spends the whole poem helping Aeneas on his way to found Rome because it is Venus' fault for the destruction of her son's people (not to mention the people of the man who called her the most beautiful goddess). And along the way you have salty Hera against Aeneas simply because he is Trojan. The gods/goddesses are so petty most of the time, and you wonder how different they would be as humans. (Not that very different, just without supernatural powers). After all, Paris did not choose Aphrodite because she was the fairest in his opinion, but because she offered Paris something he did not already have, unlike Hera and Athena. Why Venus? Is the opinion of a mortal so serious? You are a goddess! I'm like halfway done with the book, and I freaking love it. Granted, I'm reading everything backwards. We started reading the Aeneid first in my Roman Culture class, then later we started the Odyssey in my Myth class, and I realized I might as well watch Star Wars 1, 2, and 3 as 3, 2, and 1. I'll read the Iliad eventually. Valete!