82- Aeneid Part II: The Path to Italy is Paved With Graves

82- Aeneid Part II: The Path to Italy is Paved With Graves

Aeneas takes a break from finding Italy to find love- and then destroy it all in a life-ending tragedy that will set up the Punic Wars. Join us for recollections of the cyclopes Odysseus fought, Virgil standing up for family values and just quite how romantic spelunking was in the ancient world.

NOTE: We mention the mythical founding of Carthage being centuries apart from the supposed date of the fall of Troy in the episode. Ancient authors do not really agree with each other about the date, so we get anywhere from 50 years after Troy falls to 65 years before Rome is founded as the date.


Sources for this episode:

  • Odgers, M. M. (1925), Some Appearances of the Dido Story. The Classical Weekly 18(19): 145-148.
  • Virgil (1976), The Aeneid. Translated by W. F. J. Knight. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
  • Wilkinson, P., Carroll, G., Faulkner, M., Field, J. F., Haywood, J., Kerrigan, M., Philip, N., Pumphrey, N. and Tocino-Smith, J. (2018), The Mythology Book. London: Dorling Kindersley Ltd.
  • Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Mount Etna (online) (Accessed 05/10/2025).


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