also quick sketch b4 i go back 2 bed to make up for the 38 minutes of sleep i got last night astin has a criminally hot older half-brother armand eranis aka armand aeneas aranea. byeeee

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‘Dido was I the cause of your dying? I swear by the stars,
by the gods above, I left your shores unwillingly, my queen.‘-Aeneas on seeing the shade of his one-time love in the Fields of Mourning. (Aeneid VI)#MythologyMonday

🎨Dido brought to the Underworld-Georges Moreau deTours

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"This day- unless they yield,
accept our rule, submit to us-
I shall annihilate that city"
-Dido
(foreshadowing the Punic Wars
between Rome & Carthage)
-Aeneid

The Meeting of Dido & Aeneas,
by Nathaniel Dance-Holland

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Mercury, from Mercury Exhorting Aeneas to Leave Carthage, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1757 https://t.co/vErtvJVII5

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ℝ𝕦𝕓𝕖𝕟𝕤: '𝔸𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕒𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕'

In Virgil’s Aeneid, Aeneas travels to the underworld where he finds himself surrounded by phantoms. To escape, he must pass through the Gate of Ivory – the gate of false dreams

More: https://t.co/BbJoZZ7618

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ℝ𝕦𝕓𝕖𝕟𝕤: '𝔸𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕒𝕤 𝕪𝕟 𝕪𝕣 𝕀𝕤𝕗𝕪𝕕'

Yn Aeneid gan Virgil, mae Aeneas yn teithio i’r isfyd ac yn cael ei amgylchynu gan ysbrydion. Er mwyn dianc, rhaid iddo basio trwy'r Porth Ifori - porth y breuddwydion ffug

Mwy: https://t.co/BbJoZZ7618

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"There was no King more just for his piety or greater for his warrior exploits, than Aeneas."
-Virgilio.Aeneid (I, 544)

"Piety, this is wisdom, and running away from evil, this is intelligence."
-Job, 28.28.



Father's grave. Georg Osterwald (1803-1884)

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Raphael, 'Young Man Carrying an Old Man on His Back' (red chalk, c. 1514), preparatory drawing for a fresco, 'The Fire in the Borgo'; the drawing also brings instantly to mind the subject of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises as they escape burning Troy. Coll.

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to the at the with this amazing painting of Aeneas, wounded, being treated by the surgeon Lapix, from the House of Siricus at & design of the painted wall from the triclinium it decorated (Nicolini 1854, t.II)

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The Apotheosis of Aeneas (detail) by Jacob de Wit, c. 1720-1725

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Jean Raoux (1677-1734)-'Dido and Aeneas'-oil on canvas-ca 1730 Canberra-National Gallery of Australia

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🎧Henry Purcell:
Dido and Aeneas
End of Act III:
Dido´s Lament When I am laid in earth, soprano
Chorus With Drooping Wings
Simone Kermes, soprano
https://t.co/hdFqnj6vJU

🎨Dido and Aeneas
Set design by Bibiena, 1712

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Venus Receiving the Arms from Vulcan for Aeneas, and Venere e Adone morto - Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, 1734–1802)

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Detail of Iapyx removing an arrowhead from the thigh of Aeneas as recounted in Virgil’s Aeneid. Aeneas’ son Ascanius weeps at his side and I love the soldiers muttering in the background.

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late night doodle from last night, my and 's ocs Lucille and Aeneas, in modern look clothes. Lucille's taller hehe I wanna draw our other dudes for the height comparison, maybe later

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you might not remember my Aeneas as OC but here's he

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THREAD for ’s + theme: Katabasis (descent to an underworld) is common in classical myth + lit, e.g. Odysseus, Aeneas, and Orpheus visit the Underworld. But this mythological theme is also prominent in fantasy literature:

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The Romans believed there were several entrances to the One was Lake Avernus, which JMW Turner painted, with Aeneas consulting the Sibyl about how to make the descent to see his father (#Virgil, Aeneid 6)

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Maharao Ram Singh (r.1827-66) shooting a tiger from a pavilion accompanied by the British political agent Kotah who is probably Capt Charles Aeneas Burton who was killed there in 1857 along with his two sons. c.1845-50 unknown artist pic frm Bonhams

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