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turnus.bsky.social
some preacher walked up to me and was like "do you know where youre spending eternity?" and i was like. yes . i do.
the Wikipedia article for the "Fields of Sorrow." It reads: The Fields of sorrow or Fields of mourning (Latin: Lugentes campi) are an afterlife location that is mentioned by Virgil during Aeneas' trip to the underworld. In his Aeneid, Virgil locates the fields of sorrow close to the rough waters of the river Styx and describes them as having gloomy paths and dark myrtle groves. He refers to them as a place where souls recall their earthly griefs and mourn for unfulfilled love.
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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im gonna Cry
Andromache, as gracious as her husband, Heaped on more gifts, in grief at our departure: Clothing she had embroidered with gold yarn, And for Ascanius a Trojan cloak. ‘Take what my hands worked and remember me. Andromache, the wife of Hector, pledges Her love this way. Receive your family’s last gifts— You, the sole image of Astyanax Left to me, with his hands and his expressions And eyes; he’d be at boyhood’s end, like you.’
February 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Okay Vergil. Okay Anchises. Okay all of you. This is so made up and fake to me
‘Child, how the destiny of Troy torments you! Only Cassandra gave us such predictions. Now I recall she often said our race Was meant to have “the West” or “Italy.” But who’d imagine Trojans going there? And who believed Cassandra in those days? Have faith in Phoebus—now he sets us right.’
February 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
turnus.bsky.social
So this is maybe like? The second summer after the fall of Troy? because Troy fell in spring and then they left in summer, reached Thrace, founded a few settlements, and then the Dog Star, associated with the summer, "scorched the fields" in Crete
There is a place Greeks call Hesperia, An old land, strong in war and rich in loam. Oenotrians lived there, whose descendants take Their name, it’s said, from Italus the king. This is our own home. Dardanus was born here, And our clan’s founder, Father Iasius. Wake! Hurry! Go with joy to your old father. There is no question this time: he must go 170 To Italy. Jove denies you land in Crete.’
February 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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oooouhhhh youre SO pious you're the very definition of pietas ooooooh. also "when i'd stopped quaking" ITS JUST POLYDOROS. IT'S NOT HIS FAULT HE GOT TURNED INTO A BLEEDING PLANT
Not drive a man to do? When I’d stopped quaking, I told our leaders—first of all my father— About the omen here and sought advice.
February 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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dude the switch to "i" rather than "we" here is so interesting
And far-off exile. Toiling to build ships 5 In Phrygian Ida’s foothills near Antandros, We didn’t know where fate would let us settle, But mustered men. At summer’s start my father Urged us to spread our sails to destiny. I set out, weeping, from my country’s shores, 10 The plains where Troy had been. I swept to exile
February 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Aeneas carefully glossing over him losing his mind is going to make ME lose my mind . Aeneas' name means terrible grief i want to see him wear it
Of Ceres. When we gathered there, we found Her gone—her husband, child, friends cheated of her. I spared no god or man in my wild curses.
February 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Lavinia............................................
We saw a filmy, shining tongue of flame Rise from his head; it licked his baby locks And browsed around his temples harmlessly.
February 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Oh this hit. Oh this hi.t
Perhaps you want to know how Priam died.
February 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
turnus.bsky.social
ASTYANAX AND ANDROMACHE MENTION WAAGHGHGH
Andromache, poor thing, while Troy survived, Went through there unattended to her in-laws, Taking Astyanax to see his grandsire.
February 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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SEE LAST. IM GONNA LOSE IT.
The priest’s words and the gods’ power, felt within me, Drove me to burning battle. The grim Furies, The roars and shouts that rose to heaven called me.
February 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Do you not see the parallels, or contemplate the past? (lyrics via Turnus by the Pajammas)
Blindly I seized my weapons—senselessly— But my heart burned to gather friends and rush To some high place. Delirious rage pitched me Ahead: how beautiful to die in battle! An immense terror shattered his sleep, and sweat, pouring from his whole body drenched flesh and bone. Frantic, he shouted for weapons, looked for weapons by the bedside, and through the palace: desire for the sword raged in him, and the accursed madness of war, anger above all:
February 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
turnus.bsky.social
(Hector speaking) Imgoing to start crying actually.
Troy falls. Our country, Priam—gone. If my hand Could have defended Troy, you would be safe.
February 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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DID THE CURSE LIFT AFTER SHE DIED??? THATS HORRIBLE
Cassandra spoke then, echoing the future. But by the gods’ will, Troy could never hear her.
February 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
turnus.bsky.social
Thinking about that one line in Paris the Musical that's like "If Paris represents the Trojans then Troy is a nation of grinning fools"
Black text on white background that reads: The tears that he contrived did what Achilles And Diomedes and ten years of war And a thousand ships could not: they brought us down.
February 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Interesting way of self-blame in a group setting. Very pre-Carthage Aeneas.
Had heaven willed it, had we all been sane, We would have followed, shattering the Greek lair; Priam’s high citadel would still be standing.
February 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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dude this fucks me up so BAD Troy for one day thought that they were free of war after TEN YEARS and then they were slaughtered (2.26-27)
Black text on a white background saying "The whole of Troy broke free of its long mourning. We poured out through the open gates, delighted"
February 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Book 2 & 3 Time. We're off to a great start, But like??? calling Troy a tear-stained kingdom is soooooo. Augh. The idea that even the enemy would weep is so fucking strong to me
Black text on a white background saying the following: "All faces now were fixed on him in silence. Father Aeneas, on the high couch, spoke: “Must I renew a grief beyond description, Telling how Greeks destroyed the power of Troy, That tear-stained kingdom, since I saw the worst, While playing no small part? Telling about it, A Myrmidon, a Dolopian, a trooper Of cruel Ulysses too would weep. The moist night..."
February 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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philoctetes forever having to see what Neoptolemus becomes actually kills me
black text on a white background that reads: ...my funeral pyre. You too, son of Achilles, must listen: for without him you cannot take Troy, nor he apart from you. Like lions you roam together, and together guard each other's lives. And I will send to Troy...
February 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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(this is about Odysseus) Dude........................................ Maybe so, but this still sucks. He still sucks
black text on white background. It reads: The man you speak of was ordered by many other men, and he has done a great service for all his friends.
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Black text on a white background. It reads: Philoctetes Seed of Achilles, will you not address me now, but depart from me without a word? Odysseus Come with me - do not look at him - for you are noble, and you may yet spoil our fortunes.
February 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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DUDE IM FUCKING LIVING IM FUCKING THRIVING WHAT DO YOU MEAN HOUR LONG CONCEPT ALBUM ABOUT THE WAR IN LATIUM??? IM NEVER GOING TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS
An album called Portents + Prophecies, with tracks listed. all of them are named after characters from the aeneid.
February 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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reading philoctetes and losing my marbles. take this sketch i made
two men and a boy are pictured. One man, labelled "ODY" for Odysseus, is dressed in ancient Greek armor and is pulling back the boy, labelled "NEO" for Neoptolemus, from the second man, "PHI" for Philoctetes, who is on his knee and supplicant towards the boy, who holds out his hand to Philoctetes. Neoptolemus is not wearing armor.
February 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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makeout <3333
Sometimes the last thing I need is some sunlight But recently I'm seeing this side of 5 AM Way too many nights You can't blame me
February 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
turnus.bsky.social
so called free thinkers when
a sale listing from the undertale fangamer merch shop. the item is listed as "important person's shirt" and it is a green shirt with a single yellow stripe.
February 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM