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The Aeneid - King Latinus 2016-12-23 08:25:15 Post No. 8876129
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King Latinus is a confusing character to me. He trusts fate so blindly (even though he's right to) which seems to be an odd trait seeing that he's presented as such a positive character. What is his appeal to Augustus? Was Virgil trying to say that a king can go against the will of his people if he believes he's making the right decision and still be a good king? Still, this seems strange. It makes sense for Latinus to think his people are overreacting when the stag is killed, but even when Aeneas is actively killing the Italians and allying with their sworn enemies, he's still on Aeneas' side. What do you think Virgil wanted Augustus to think of him?
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>>8876129
>implying the people know a damn thing
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>>8876129
What makes you think that Virgil -was- actually trying to suck Augustus's dick in regards to everything in the poem? Why can't Latinus be an ambiguous, flawed human bound by circumstances, history, the will and force of the gods, like everyone else is?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20162871
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>>8876172
/pol/ needs to leave
>>8876187
But that's the thing, Latinus isn't flawed or ambiguous. If everyone would've listened to him, there wouldn't have been a problem in the first place. That's what's weird about him
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>>8876172
are you ever off the fucking clock
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>>8878295
Then why are they still here, fugging idiot?
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