Discover Top Posts Tagged with #aeneid 12

Popular Recent

Virgil writing for Turnus ‘ille humilis supplex oculos dextramque precantem protendens’ in 12.930-1 and then writing ‘Aeneas volvens oculos dextramque repressit’ in 12.939 is making me go absolutely feral this Thursday morning.

#like they are The Same Person #Aeneas of Troy vs the new Aeneas of Italy #it’s just luck that he’s got the fate of founding rome and Turnus has to die #and they’re very balanced people #Virgil turning the pathos up to 11 #tagamemnon #ancient literature memes #classics memes #ancient rome #latin #virgil #latin literature #the aeneid #Aeneid #Aeneid 12 #Aeneid posting specifically for mx thoodleoo

Virgil describing the death of Murranus in book 12:

#affirmations of the day: I know my Aeneid 12 enough for the test and I think about James acaster a normal amount #aeneid memes #aeneid 12 #the aeneid #vergil #Virgil #virgil’s aeneid #virgil is a bro and for legal reasons this is a joke #murranus #aeneid posting specifically for mx thoodleoo

Virgil: *slaps roof of Aeneid 12 20-26* this section can fit so much elision in it

#elision is my favourite so it was great #scansion #scansion gives me serotonin #hexameter #classics memes #ancient literature memes #ancient history memes #ancient history #ancient rome #latin #the Aeneid #virgil’s aeneid #virgil #aeneid #aeneas #aeneid 12

Atonement

Yesterday I taught Virgil, Aeneid 12 — the final book of the epic. Mostly I lectured about

**SPOILER ALERT**

the death of Turnus. When Aeneas kills him, he says (Frederick Ahl’s translation):

Pallas gives you this death-stroke, yes Pallas / Makes you the sacrifice, spills your criminal blood in atonement!

In Latin this is:

Pallas te hoc uulnere, Pallas / immolat et poenam scelerato ex sanguine…

View On WordPress

#aeneas #aeneid 12 #atonement #frederick ahl #pallas #philology will save the world #retribution #turnus #virgil

#aeneid 12

Trending Tags

Recently Viewed Tags

#aeneid 12