Es el tipo de literatura que me gusta, la interacción entre dioses y mortales siempre ha captado mi atención y la Eneida además de que existe esa interpelación llega a un final feliz deseable para los fines que fue escrito en donde se perpetúa la existencia de los troyanos. ( )

"When young any composition pleases which unites a little sense, some imagination, and some rhythm, in doses however small. But as we advance in life these things fall off one by one, and I suspect we are left at last with only Homer and Virgil, perhaps Homer alone." - Thomas Jefferson, Thoughts on English Prosody

"[So much] has my relish for poetry deserted me that at present I cannot read Virgil with pleasure." - Thomas Jefferson to John Daly Burk, 21 Jun. 1801 [PTJ 34:400-401]

"and what finer specimens could [the teacher of Latin and Greek] produce & comment on ... in Belles lettres than Homer, Anacreon, Theocritus, Virgil, Horace, Terence & the Greek tragedians, all of them school books?" - Thomas Jefferson to Jason Chamberlain, 1 Jul. 1814 [PTJ:RS 28:447-448]

"I would advise you to undertake a regular course of history & poetry in both languages ... in Latin read Livy, Caesar, Sallust Tacitus, Cicero’s Philosophies, and some of his Orations, in prose; and Virgil, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Horace, Terence & Juvenal for poetry." - Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 Oct. 1820

READ IN LATIN/DUTCH

In The Netherlands we have several works from Latin Literature that rotate being the subject for our final exams Latin. In my year we had The Aeneis by Virgil, more exactly the sixth book, which deals with Aeneis entering the Underworld and speaking to some of his friends/enemies.

This is of course one of the greatest works in classical literature, and there are a lot of similarities with the Odyssee by Homer, one of the greatest Greek stories. If you are interested, it is nice to read both, so you can see the parallels and the differences. ( )

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