Twin snakes with burning eyes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m really struggling to understand what exactly is going on here Virgil. I reread and reread, but it all just went in my brain and then decided to disappear like Agamemnon in an Eno™.
This book is starting to seem like a really complicated Pirates of the Caribbean story to me. Everything is over the top and must happen a certain way. Otherwise, the fate of a bunch of people is at stake. The “whole hope of the Dannas” resting on one man's shoulders? Isn’t that a bit much? I’m sure if Pallas doesn’t do what they expect from him, they’ll figure something out. And then two flaming sea serpents just show up and steal the show for a few paragraphs to just become irrelevant again. And why does this story have to have so many characters? I get that most if not all of them might have been relevant gods or public figures at the time of this being written, but it makes really hard to follow what is happening when you don’t even know what’s happening to who, or whom “who” even is!
Is Priam’s daughter’s death really going to do much? Look at Agamemnon, he killed his virgin daughter and all he got was “stab stab stab” to the chest. I guess some people don’t learn from past stories. I’ll be glad to discuss this in class so that I can truly understand what the heck is going on in the reading.
I commented on Spencer and Sydney's posts.
This entire piece is hard to follow. I think they used all of these extra characters that would have been known to the Roman audience. Virgil wants to relate this to the people. Using familiar names and characters from older works makes it seem older and to the roman people this is what they wanted. I think we touched on this in class but I'm not 100% sure it was this class. Also I'm just guessing so i think asking in class wold be great to get other opinions.
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