#turnus

[spineless-lobster]

Okay but turnus did not have to be that gay about wanting to kill aeneas

“I need to throw him down and rip off his corselet with my brawny hands and smear his gorgeous hair with dust and get him all filthy and ruin him”

Like my brother in jove what are you talking about

[galusandmalus]

The Etruscans could cook godamn the aura is insane. Imagine putting these on the laestroygians or something. imagine turnus rocking up in this (its not brnze age but it looks cool)

imagine is hollywood took insperation from this instead of lotr

[sksjjsjwjejsjwos]

thinking about how the aeneid is about the pain of having to outlive your loved ones

dido couldn’t die with sychaeus. anna couldn’t die with dido. evander couldn’t die with pallas. juturna and daunus couldn’t die with turnus. lavinia couldn’t die with amata. and aeneas couldn’t die with the family he left behind in troy or anchises or pallas or dido

[ilions-end]

Aeneas defeats Turnus by Luca Giordano (1634 - 1705)

[aziscribs]

Who is euippe

TLDR; Euippe is Diomedes' wife in Italy and probably maybe Turnus' sister

She's mentioned in only one source, in the case of Alexandria with Alaeus and him claiming her and pissing Diomedes off ending with Diomedes cursing his land over it. A lot of mentions of Diomedes ending up with a daughter of Daunus who is often unnamed but given that we have one mention of Euippe's name our best bet is assuming it's her lol, that's where we get her probably being Turnus' sister from. There's also a mention of Diomedes and Euippe having two children!

Euippe's name means good mare which I think is very cute

The assumed storyline (cause we only have mentions and bits and pieces) is that after Diomedes' exile following the Trojan War, he ends up in Daunia, Italy (modern Apulia) where King Daunus begs him to help fend off the Messapians. For his assistance, he hands his daughter Euippe's hand in marriage to him. She goes on to mother his kids, Diomedes (jr.) and Amphinomous.

[dijeh]

Virgil, Aeneid

trans. Stanley Lombardo

[of-ardea]

I THINK I KNEW FROM THE START, THAT I'M CURSED. THAT I WOULD DO SOMETHING TERRIBLE TO YOU. BUT I STILL LOVED YOU, ANYWAY. & IT DESTROYED YOU

I think a lot about Lavinia and how she might have felt about the prophecy that she would bring war to her people through her marriage.

[mythologypaintings]

Aeneas Defeating Turnus

Artist: Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Aeneas Defeating Turnus is a dynamic Baroque masterpiece depicting the climax of Virgil’s Aeneid. It captures the exact moment the Trojan hero triumphs over his rival, a tragic turning point that secures the founding of Rome.