V is for Virgil

We claim to be a part-time literary blog, so we feel obliged to put up a few, you know, literary-type things occasionally, hence this: Thumos has a good but brief post about Virgil's Aeneid. If you're into this type of stuff, check it out. Excerpt:

It's a great book. Aeneas is full of nobility. He's not outsized in nearly inhuman greatness like Achilles. He's not the resourceful Everyman that Odysseus is. Aeneas is bound by duty and piety and finds his identity in them. That's something a lot of fathers can relate to.

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