#ascanius

[theraichme]

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

[ala-chrisgoods]

Day 21-Ascanius

[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

[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.

[venomspecs]

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

[men-of-the-epic-cycle]

A wounded Aeneas, leaning on his young son Ascanius, with his mother Venus-Aphrodite hovering in the background

— Fresco, Pompeii