#aeneid — Public Fediverse posts

"I sing of arms and the man who, forced by fate..."

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1936683/i-sing-of-arms-and-the-man-who-forced-by-fate

"I sing of arms and the man who, forced by fate..."

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1936679/i-sing-of-arms-and-the-man-who-forced-by-fate

Propaganda, Politics, and Why the Romans Were the OG Spin Doctors
#RomanMyths #Propaganda #Philosophy #Aeneid #Virgilhttps://racinginf.blogspot.com/2025/08/propaganda-politics-and-why-romans-were.html

Reading the #Aeneid for the first time in over 20 years... Back when I was a student of Classics, we all tended to prefer Homer, but after all these years, I'm literally falling in love with #Virgil.

To think that he intended for this work to be burned to ashes after his death...

#Classics #ClassicalStudies

Wai’ao Beach
Yilan County, Taiwan
©Alton’s Images

#destiny #fate #history #life #journey #virgil #aeneid #literature #poetry #classic

The Missing Lines:

Though once I tuned my little song
On slender reed, before too long
I left the forest hills behind,
And lulled the nearby fields to mind
The eager husbandman, a pleasant
Profession for the simple peasant.
But now I sing of dreadful war:
Arms and the man from Trojan shore.

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