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Venus and Ascanius (Iulus)

Sleeping in grandma's lap

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keeps pace with tripping steps

#we're gonna ignore the fact that he's supposed to be at aeneas' right #art #animation #the aeneid #aeneas #iulus #...#roman mythology #i think?#greek mythology #tagamemnon

thinking about iulus again.. imagine him looking more and more like his mother as he grows..

OOH ngl i’ve always thought of him being born resembling his mother a lot and slowly losing that resemblance since she represented a past that had to be left behind but GOSHHHH IMAGINE AENEAS SEEING THAT WJSJDHWJFJHFTH

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Furry Iliad AU: Moving on ft. Aeneas, Diomedes & Ascanius

Quick comic concept, because if you can't tell, Diomedes has a very specific type

Bonus:

Aeneas - fallow deer

Diomedes - lion

Ascanius - fallow deer/red deer mix

Furry Iliad Masterpost

Next episode: Achilles is racist

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aeneid doodle things 👍👍

#Sibyl of cumae #dido of carthage #pallas #idk how to tag him he’s so minor he gets introduced and then gets destroyed by Turnus like a book later #Aeneas got overcome by Furor and left the child unattended on the battle field he seems to do that a lot #Ascanius #iulus #the aeneid #My art

I just wanted to explore Ascanius' "fated purpose" for a second.

His fate is mostly to be Aeneas' temporary son, in all honesty. You can see this in the conversation between Jupiter and Venus in Book 1, where Jupiter promises Venus that Ascanius will rule in Alba Longa after Aeneas' death for thirty years, and then just very conveniently forgets to mention that the "kings of Hector's race" will not be Creusa's line but Lavinia's. Sure, Ascanius' line is said to descend into the Julia gens, but he was still secondary to his half-brother Silvius.

Adding into this, you have the Apollo-Ascanius interaction in Book 9. Ascanius, who wishes to prove himself in battle, prays to Jupiter for his arrow to make its mark (an action i would consider religiously pious). He wishes to rouse his troops and rebut words against the Trojan people. And in response, Apollo appeared to Ascanius as his fucking childhood babysitter (something that goes to show the sheer disrespect that the gods have for Ascanius as an independent actor) and told the troops that Ascanius was leading to drag their commander away from the battlefield. Just earlier in Book 9, we saw Ascanius as eager and excited to grant Nisus and Euryalus a mission, a decision that I see as a combination of his youth and inexperience and his desire to prove himself by having successful command orders under his belt.

(This is tangential but I have a document that goes over every time the name "Ascanius" and "Iulus" are mentioned, and I just found a section (Book XI: within lines 1-99) where Aeneas calls Pallas a protector of both Ausonia (Italy) and Ascanius. This intrigues me because Pallas (Itallian) is more important to the Aeneid narrative than Ascanius (Trojan), and can be a kind of symbolism for the way Aeneas puts his fatherhood in Italy in place of Troy.)

Pretty much for the rest of the poem, Ascanius is largely ornamental. Despite trying to prove himself within the latter half of the novel, he ultimately fails to come close to shining as bright as his father, like a star against the Sun. He is a vessel through which Aeneas can be a father, and to an extent Pallas even replaces him in this role. Ultimately his fate is to be something temporary until Aeneas or his Lavinian line steps back into power.

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