That's the Power of Love
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Don't take money...don't take fame...just takes a primordial deity whose powers of creation and destruction supervised the origins of the world, who is now divebombing straight at Dido's heart. What could go wrong? This extremely twisted Valentine's Day special will bring us to the end of The Aeneid, Book 1, which ends in blood-pumping fashion with a moment of extreme sexual tension. In the midst of which, Aeneas will be asked to relive the time his home got obliterated by a ruthless army of bloodthirsty Greeks. Fun! (No actually, it's fun.) Plus: the Drake and Kendrick of the ancient world.
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| 0:00.0 | So I hope everyone had an absolutely phenomenal Valentine's Day. Of course, this is the holiday in celebration of love. |
| 0:08.2 | So I hope you gathered with your loved ones. And I hope you spent some time really appreciating the fearsome powers of Eros, that violent trickster god who supervised the creation of the world, the primeval |
| 0:23.4 | power in the atom known from the beginnings of philosophy, the ferocious blaze of destruction |
| 0:29.5 | who has now become death, destroyer of worlds. Also, I hope you got chocolates. |
| 0:42.3 | Thank you. Also, I hope you got chocolates. All right, we need to talk about love. |
| 0:45.3 | I said last week that the Aeneid from here on out |
| 0:48.3 | is going to be an interlocking series of war stories within love stories, |
| 0:53.3 | within war stories, within love stories, |
| 0:55.7 | kind of like a love war inception extravaganza, Russian doll of stories about love |
| 1:01.8 | and war within love and death and drama and desire and excitement and tragedy and |
| 1:08.4 | disaster. And we're actually going to come to the end today of book one. We're |
| 1:13.4 | going to complete the setup, Virgil's setup and our setup for this story. There's a lot to it. |
| 1:19.6 | It's taken us kind of a while to get through book one because there's a lot of background |
| 1:23.5 | information, a lot of things that Virgil is laying the groundwork for. |
| 1:28.3 | And I wanted to draw your attention to some of the most famous passages, some of the passages that really set up this domino effect that's going to click now into place. |
| 1:38.3 | Soon, that first book is going to end. We're going to finish that first book today. |
| 1:43.3 | And with that, we will launch into the story of the fall of Troy when Aeneas begins to tell his tale of how he escaped the destruction of his home city. |
| 1:53.2 | But before we do that, we have to get one more setup in there, and that's the big one, the love affair of Dido and Annius. |
| 2:01.4 | Because as I said, that is going to be the overarching drama of this first narrative. |
| 2:07.9 | This is a war story, the story of the fall of Troy, that takes place within a love story, |
| 2:13.6 | the doomed love story of Dido and Aeneas. |
| 2:16.6 | And so that means that today we are going to meet |
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