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In an earlier entry, I wrote about a footrace that took place in book V of the Aeneid, in which Nisus tripped a guy so Euryalus could win the race. Good news! They're back in book IX, and they're still friends... or more...
( If I don't watch out, I'll start to contemplate writing fanfiction )
Also, in this second event involving Nisus and Euryalus, Vergil uses the metaphor of a flower crushed by a passing plow. (For those of you who don't get this reference, I'm amused because Catullus used this metaphor in one of his poems, and Vergil is believed to have been influenced by Catullus.) Once again, book IX is not on the AP syllabus, and once again, I will look this part of it up online sometime. (I sniff a conspiracy on the part of the College Board.)
Also of note in the Aeneid, I've noticed quite a number of the young men in this war are described as "handsome". Oh Vergil, you amuse me so. (And people thought he was proto-Christian. What a joke!)
( If I don't watch out, I'll start to contemplate writing fanfiction )Also, in this second event involving Nisus and Euryalus, Vergil uses the metaphor of a flower crushed by a passing plow. (For those of you who don't get this reference, I'm amused because Catullus used this metaphor in one of his poems, and Vergil is believed to have been influenced by Catullus.) Once again, book IX is not on the AP syllabus, and once again, I will look this part of it up online sometime. (I sniff a conspiracy on the part of the College Board.)
Also of note in the Aeneid, I've noticed quite a number of the young men in this war are described as "handsome". Oh Vergil, you amuse me so. (And people thought he was proto-Christian. What a joke!)
