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[Discussion 6/6] | Bonus Book – The Aeneid by Virgil | Books 11 & 12

Hello and welcome to the final week of our discussion of Virgil's epic poem, Aeneid! Here are some summaries I stole borrowed from John Dryden's very much public domain translation.

BOOK XI

Æneas erects a trophy of the spoils of Mezentius, grants a truce for burying the dead, and sends home the body of Pallas with great solemnity Latinus calls a council, to propose offers of peace to Æneas; which occasions great animosity betwixt Turnus and Drances In the mean time there is a sharp engagement of the horse; wherein Camilla signalizes herself; is kill’d; and the Latine troops are entirely defeated.

BOOK XII

Turnus challenges Æneas to a single combat: articles are agreed on, but broken by the Rutili, who wound Æneas. He is miraculously cur’d by Venus, forces Turnus to a duel, and concludes the poem with his death.

Since this is originally a Latin text, I'll be using the Latin forms of everyone's names (Odysseus becomes Ulysses in Latin, etc.) If you're unfamiliar with the Roman names for the gods, have no fear, I found a cool chart which you can use as a guide. It can be found here. Also, here's the schedule and here's the marginalia.

Source: r/bookclub · by /u/Ser_Erdrick

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