Virgil Virgin

[rebness]

Second book of the dark, murky wasteland days of internet loss is Virgil's The Aeneid. Wow. Am so smart, and stuff.

Except for the part where, thus far, I've only managed to work out who the equivalent of Juno, Jupiter and Venus are. I have no damned idea who that guy is with the swirly winds. I thought he was Neptune, but then Neptune turned up. Perhaps Apollo? No, there's Phoebus Apollo right there. WOE.

Does anyone know what happened to Paris? I didn't find out from The Illiad and I'm not sure I will from Virgil. The Odyssey is currently in hiding, or Jack finally defeated Odysseus.

Also, every time Dido speaks, I imagine her to use a North London accent.

Postmodernist mindsets suck.

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[rebness.livejournal.com]

Well, seeing as the Celts, the Romans, the Vikings and every man and his dog invaded Britain, to read about Graeco-Roman history is to read about the history of Britain, in a skewed sense.

I was talking with my mum last night about this. How many true English people are there? I mean, descendants from the Angles? I bet not many. Our history rocks, dude! (In a very bloody, sort-of Icelandic sense.)

Try telling this to some Brits, though. Often you'll get an "Eng-er-land" reply, so you just go back to your classics and feel very smug, and very nerdy. >:)

I am going to look out for The Firebrand when I go to stalk Dessaix stock at Waterstone's this Friday, then. It may be interesting-- so much of the Illiad is like, "And then Achilles did slaughter seven men, ripping their thorax out; Achilles, swift runner, pounded lots of people good."

To borrow a phrase... how like a man.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

But the Angles were a Germanic tribe, so wouldn't the "true English", if you could quantify them (I have a hunch it's like asking who was the real King Arthur), the Britons and earlier tribes?

My point, anyway, was that I hate being asked lots of questions all the time, especially when the answers are very obvious or just require a little initiative to find out. :(

Achilles is kind of effeminate and also stupid in The Firebrand, so that will be a nice change of pace.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

That is a good point. Oh, who knows who the "true" Brits are, anymore? Maybe there are about three true Brits left, what with all the slaughtering, the yelling and the huge battles.

I wish they could do like a blood test or something to work that out. At the moment, I'm sure they can only tell you if you're of European blood. Well, guh.

Yaay for being effeminate. Boo for stupid people. I shalt,however, read of Achilles, runner and stupid person.