Jun 3, 2024
The Trojans have dinner. Aeneas's mom is worried. Jupiter reassures her via historical contextualization.
reproducing last year's caption for this set of lines: do you ever think about how within the first 300 lines of the aeneid jupiter lays out the next, mm, 300 years of history, unequivocally, thus binding aeneas and everyone else in his story to a version of fate that is literally prewritten because roman history had already happened? and also aeneas only has three years to live after founding latium? because i think about it. i think about it a lot
