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In Book 5 of the Aeneid, [2] Salius, who lives in Segesta, competes in the funeral games held for Anchises. Salius is among the runners in the footrace, along with Nisus and Euryalus. When the frontrunner Nisus falls, Salius finds himself in the lead, but Nisus trips him deliberately to secure the victory for his friend Euryalus.
Virgil introduces the characters anew, but they have already appeared in Book 5, [11] at the funeral games held for Aeneas's father, Anchises, during the "Odyssean" first half of the epic. [12] The games demonstrate behaviors that in the war to come will result in victory or defeat; in particular, the footrace in which Nisus and Euryalus ...
Anchises' first major appearance comes in Book 2. He is mentioned while Aeneas is telling Dido about the fall of Troy. [7] During the fall of Troy, Aeneas makes his way home to save Anchises, his wife Creusa, and his son Ascanius. [7] At first Anchises refuses to go with Aeneas and tells Aeneas to leave without him. [7]
Gyas is one of the four captains in the boat race in Book 5 of the Aeneid; he commands the Chimaera, and after gaining an early lead, at the halfway point he orders Menoetes, his helmsman, to steer in tightly, but Menoetes, afraid of hitting the reef, takes a wider turn and the Chimaera is passed on the inside by Cloanthus in the Scylla.
After two novels and a separate short story collection, Katherine Heiny is back with “Games and Rituals,” a delightful bundle of offbeat dramedy fiction. Heiny grabs readers from the jump in ...
After its Emmy-winning fourth season, "The Crown" returns to Netflix for a fifth go at Queen Elizabeth II and her royal family and proves more audacious and addictive than ever. The real Queen ...
It is a loose retelling [3] [4] of N. P. Osipov's 1791 Aeneid Travestied Inside Out (Russian: Виргилиева Энеида, вывороченная наизнанку), written in Russian; the latter being a free translation of Aloys Blumauer's Virgils Aeneis, travestiert (1784), which in turn hails back to Paul Scarron's 1648 poem Le ...
Fascinating backroom politics circa WWII are undermined by banal marital melodrama in Danish director Christina Rosendahl’s “The Good Traitor,” resulting in a so-so period drama that raises ...