By Luke Roman
Greek and Roman mythology has interested humans for greater than millennia, and its impression on cultures all through Europe, the US, North Africa, and the center East attests to the common charm of the tales. This identify examines the best-known figures of Greek and Roman mythology including the nice works of vintage literature.
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They fall upon the camp of their sleeping, drunken enemies and wreak havoc. However, the gleam of Euryalus’s newly acquired helmet gives them away. The older man, Nisus, escapes, but when he realizes that the youth Euryalus has been left behind, he turns back. Nisus cannot save Euryalus but rushes to his death to slay the man who killed him. The Rutulians put their heads on spears and display them before the Trojan camp, where Euryalus’s mother sees them. Turnus and his allies besiege the Trojans.
The Chorus addresses him with respect and makes a sharp distinction between flattery that is only seemingly sincere and an authentic expression of support and gratitude. The Chorus’s previous criticism of the expedition should be sufficient proof of their honesty. Agamemnon expresses gratitude to the gods for the fall of Troy, displays his awareness of false praise and hidden malice, praises Odysseus’s loyalty to him, and suggests that if there is any “disease” in the city, it will be treated by knife and cautery.
Jupiter agrees. Then he sends down one of two terrifying hell-creatures called Dirae, which changes into an ill-omened screech owl and appears before Turnus as a chilling portent: A numbness comes over him; his sister Juturna recognizes the sign of doom and withdraws into the river. As the fight resumes, Turnus picks up an immense stone and hurls it at Aeneas, but he senses that he has lost his own strength and capacity, and the stone falls short of the mark. Aeneas hurls a spear and pierces Turnus’s thigh.