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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Dido Music Info: Welcome to: Sonnet Sunday Review #.4: The Aeneid .

Queen Dido falls for him, and in doing so condemns herself, since he is driven onby divine whims, and Rome isn't going to establish itself. Gods' plans aren't something mortals candisrupt in this unfinished work that ends abrupt-" The Aeneid has been facetiously called a spinoff or even fanfiction of The Iliad-it takes a side character from The Iliad and makes him a central character.

Welcome to: Sonnet Sunday Review #.4: The Aeneid by Virgil .

AA Aeneid Welcome to: Sonnet Sunday Review #34: The Aeneid by Virgil .
The Aeneid Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles Penguin Classics, 2006 "In medias res, the heart of the story, Aeneas, son of Venus' talebegins. At Carthage he reveals his formerglory and sorrow as he fled from Troy, he spins a story of Hector's loss, that "last, best promise of Troy," and recounts his own misfortunes out at sea where Juno, queen of all the gods, hadtoyed with his ships to maintain him from his portion of founding Rome.