#ascanius

[theraichme]

Penthesilea among other Trojans, by Jose Daniel Cabrera Peña in "Heroes of the Trojan War"

[ala-chrisgoods]

Day 21-Ascanius

[venomspecs]

Illustration by Patryk Hardziej for the Mondadori edition of Virgil's Aeneid

[slightlyplant]

can’t believe they put aeneas in hades! they really needed more absent mother representation

[charnel-grounds]

Domenicus van Wijnen (1658–1700)

“The Witches’ Sabbath by Moonlight”

oil on canvas, 17th century

[quotesfrombooksarchive]

15 year old Ascanius could beat the shit out of 21 year old Telemachus

[sapocipo]

Venus and Ascanius (Iulus)

Sleeping in grandma's lap

[morgueandtomb]

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but the Iliad and then Virgil’s Aeneid are anti-war texts.

Yes, there is much talk about glory and whatnot but the pain, anger, and grief that absolutely wrecks both these texts scream out to us today and ask, why are we still doing all this?

And yet, even back then, they all knew they were doomed to repeat their mistakes.