Aeneas, Anchises, and Underworld Propaganda (The Aeneid Part 9)

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

Arts, Comedy, History

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Aeneas travels to the Underworld to speak with his father and learn the future of his descendants including, once again, Caesar and Augustus themselves!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Sarah Ruden.

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0:00.0	Oh, hi, hello there. This is Let's Talk About Myths, baby. And I am that woman who
0:17.4	rants to you. Live, you remember. Well, with spooky season over and that spooky election done and for the better, we're diving back into that
0:29.7	oh so problematic founder of Rome. Anias. I do hope you enjoyed last week's
0:37.3	episode with Bettany Hughes. It was truly such a thrill for me and so so fascinating to learn so much more about Aphrodite, her history, the archaeology, and the ancestral goddesses of the region. Just
0:53.7	fascinating. You should definitely read the book too, Venus and Aphrodite.
0:59.0	It was so good and so interesting and just really pulled you in. Highly recommend.
1:05.0	And speaking of Venus, let's head back to her obnoxious and privileged son, Anius, shall we?
1:16.6	Where we last left Anius, he had fled this act, destroyed City of Troy, leaving his wife there to die alone before
1:26.1	traveling and eventually landing on Carthage where he developed some kind of
1:30.7	relationship with Dido the the badass queen, eventually causing her death via the interference of that mother of his Venus.
1:40.0	Dido's death was a fucking tragedy. She was a queen who'd founded a whole city on her own, far from her homeland and built it into an incredible and important city in Libya, modern Tunisia.
1:51.0	Her death and the fall of Carthage's result was entirely developed out of Rome's disdain for
1:56.7	the city, which they had recently completely decimated and burned to the ground. So Augustus had Virgil kill off their queen just to rub salt in some already very, very sore wounds.
2:12.0	Anyway, we're on Dido's side on this podcast. It can't be helped.
2:16.0	So when the East left, along with the other remaining Trojans, still hell-bent on founding that new city of Troy,
2:23.2	what will, in time, become Rome.
2:26.0	First, though he lands on Sicily where there was an old friend from Troy,
2:31.0	they hold some late funereal games for his father and someone lands into
2:35.0	huge pile of shit. The Trojans' numbers dwindled there in Sicily because anyone who didn't
2:41.0	want to continue on to Italy was allowed to stay.
2:44.0	They found a city there called Ilium, in the country they called Troy.
2:48.0	Then, finally, Anias and the others, who will continue on, sailed off.
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