<p>Virgil gives us a brief little filler chapter. Pious Aeneas is very...pious, the Trojans are slow to learn there's...probably always a fire when you see smoke, and the moral of the story is you can do anything you put your mind to with the help of a few water nymphs or a good old tantrum.</p>

Virgil gives us a brief little filler chapter. Pious Aeneas is very...pious, the Trojans are slow to learn there's...probably always a fire when you see smoke, and the moral of the story is you can do anything you put your mind to with the help of a few water nymphs or a good old tantrum.

The Aeneid - Book Five: Where Have I Heard This Before? (hint: The Odyssey)

Teachers would call it 'lively,' scholars would call it 'unorthodox,' and I'd call it 'honest'...I re-interpret Virgil's Aeneid with a dash of realism and all the underlying sarcastic comments necessary, reminding everyone that the classics are for all of us, always. 
(ps. in Rome, the plebs were the ordinary people. You and me. This is Classics, for Us). 

Bonus points: if you're studying Classics right now, I made sure to include all those important bits that'll definitely come up in your exams...

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Teachers would call it 'lively,' scholars would call it 'unorthodox,' and I'd call it 'honest'...I re-interpret Virgil's Aeneid with a dash of realism and all the underlying sarcastic comments necessary, reminding everyone that the classics are for all of us, always. (ps. in Rome, the plebs were the ordinary people. You and me. This is Classics, for Us). Bonus points: if you're studying Classics right now, I made sure to include all those important bits that'll definitely come up in your exams...

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The Aeneid - Book Five: Where Have I Heard This Before? (hint: The Odyssey)