The gloom below
"He sank his blade in fury in Turnus' chest ... and with a groan for that indignity his spirit fled into the gloom below." Beautiful. That dude Turnus had it coming for at least 150 pages.
Beautiful:
He sank his blade in fury in Turnus' chest.
Then all the body slackened in death's chill,
And with a groan for that indignity
His spirit fled into the gloom below.
That dude, Turnus, had it coming for at least 150 pages.
Trojan/Roman Aeneas: the historical big picture
What was Virgil trying to accomplish in writing his Aeneid, perhaps the greatest poem in history? That’s the question I want to try to answer in this post. (Since the Aeneid merits several po…
Andreas Kluth
