The Aeneid by Virgil | Book 4

[@DogsandPennies]

Virgil really said "just cause the goddess of marriage says your married, doesn't mean you are 💖"

[@ameliadubin165]

that's the thing though, Venus causes so much chaos because she doesn't have that power. if it were different the entire trojan war wouldn't have happened! Aphrodite gave Helen to Paris - this doesn't mean it was without consequence, or that it was lasting. I mean in the helen/paris situation there's also the issue of Xenia and so that definitely wasn't going to end well.

[@DogsandPennies]

@@ameliadubin165 I was actually referring to Hera/Juno being the goddess of marriage. Still, your point's accurate.

[@willneeb1952]

You're*

[@justjesschannel]

@@willneeb1952they had the correct your 😂 you didn’t

[@willneeb1952]

@@justjesschannel I'm sorry, I didn't realize we were speaking Regard here. Your right.

[@emimcc3614]

I love watching these before reading the work, it makes it so much easier to understand! Thank you for these!

[@trentsimmons5185]

Thank you! Better than reading 100 pages in less than an hour lol

[@smelisi]

I love listening to these and then reading the actual text. Even a good translation can get you lost, so having these tidy little summaries allows for you to navigate the more obscure bits of poetry and still get what's going on.

[@meganmoney3479]

Aneis really just hit it and quit it and then said she was the one who was hiding their guilt to her face. Sadly this is a common occurrence even today. Nice to know some things don’t evolve since ancient times

[@FishyCuber]

Did Dido burn and did she even burn her pyre? In the copy I read it says she stabbed herself on her pyre, and her sister Anna found her and tried to hear her dying words "Three times she tried ti struggle up on an elbow, three times she fell back, writhing on her bed" And then the god Iris comes down to release her spirit from her body because "she was dying a death not fated or deserved".

[@Dudlow]

I was wondering that too. The translation I have (Fitzgerald, 1983) says that Anna found Dido on the pyre & took her in her arms.

[@FishyCuber]

@@Dudlow I've since read a couple translation, and I'm pretty sure it never says explicitly in Book IV that the pyre is lit. At the very beginning of Book V, it says Aeneas and his men look back at Carthage and see the pyre alight but they don't know what it is and take it as a bad omen. Maybe it was a stylistic choice of Virgil's that the reader never sees exactly how or when the pyre is lit, just like Aeneas.

[@anecdott]

These videos really are helpful. 👏🏻

[@tyrian_baal]

The ending of Dido eriey reflects the ending of Carthage itsef, with Hadrubals wife casting herself and her children into the fire of the temple of Eshmoun cursing him for all entirety

[@ImQuez.q]

Thanks russell you’re the best!!

[@caroegc]

Dido: I burn for you

[@lidiaproskurina3042]

Very helpful! Thank you!

[@caoimhefinnegan969]

Thank you 😊

[@JenniferDutkiewicz]

makes understanding easy

[@kaylaquintero8363]

🙌THANK YOU

[@samuelwilson7565]

I still failed

[@ad4631]

Same man, same

[@zeke6396]

Ya same

[@titusconcerts]

Same😭

[@ameliadubin165]

Hey wasn't Dido Queen of Carthage? Why is her animated character white....?

[@marinagemoftheseas]

Dido wasn't from Carthage, she escaped to Carthage. I'm not sure myself of her skin colour, but she was described to have blonde hair, so that could indicate her skin colour. Women also at the time (I'm not sure about Dido because she was an unconventional woman of her time) used to stay indoors because the outdoors were considered for men, which gave them pale skin. Alternatively, maybe white people were rich royals? Because Dido was a prominent figure when she was married to Sychaeus.

[@henryyancey1117]

Maya! Maya! Thank you!! Oh Maya!

[@adanbashir1798]

ur literally so cute

[@zoegonzales8773]

Bro? 😟

[@SkylarStJohn-mo4yi]

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