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Game on...on the radio...Brewers at Dodgers...Muncie with three rbi pinch hit home run...Brewers 2-Dodgers 3...Dante's Virgil...author of the Aeneid...the diaspora of the Trojans...their Odysseys...
✨️where all did the Trojans go?
According to Greco-Roman myth, surviving Trojans scattered across the Mediterranean. Led by the hero Aeneas, a group of refugees fled burning Troy from Mount Ida and Antandros, traveling through Thrace, Delos, Crete, Epirus, Sicily, and Carthage (North Africa) before finally settling in Latium, Italy, laying the ancestral foundations for Rome. Other survivors like Helenus settled in Epirus. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The Journey of Aeneas and the Refugees
Mount Ida / Antandros: Where Aeneas and his followers built their ships.
Thrace & Delos: Initial stops where they sought prophecies and faced betrayal or guidance.
Crete & Epirus: Brief settlements or encounters with other Trojan groups like Helenus and Andromache.
Carthage: A major stop in North Africa where Aeneas stayed with Queen Dido before leaving for Italy.
Italy (Latium): The final destination near the Tiber River where they integrated with local Latins to form the roots of Roman civilization. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Would you like to explore the fate of specific Trojan characters (like Cassandra, Andromache, or Astyanax) or dive deeper into the literary accounts like Virgil's Aeneid?
🎶hmmph...readsaid they reached Ireland...
✨️Tuatha de Danaan Troy
The connection between the Tuatha Dé Danann and Troy stems from early medieval
Irish pseudohistory, specifically the Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland or Book of Invasions). Christian monastic scribes attempted to sync traditional
Celtic mythology with classical Greek lore and the Bible.
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
✨️In The White Goddess, Robert Graveslinks the Irish mythological tribe Tuatha Dé Danann to Mediterranean and Greek prehistory, treating Irish pseudo-historical texts like the Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions) as records of real ancient migrations. [1, 2, 3]
Graves's Theories on the Tuatha Dé DanannDefinition: Graves defines them as "the folk of the God whose mother is Danu". [1]
Greek/Mediterranean Origins: Citing traditional invasion lore, he argues the Tuatha Dé Danann were driven northward from Greece (and associated by some mythographers with the Danaans or sea-peoples) before traveling through Denmark and eventually reaching the British Isles. [1, 2]
The Matriarchal Conflict: Graves interpreted ancient Celtic poetic remnants, such as the Song of Amergin, as encoded historical memories of tribal conflicts on Salisbury Plain between the incoming patriarchal Brythonic tribes and the earlier matrilineal, moon- or crone-worshipping Danann groups. [1, 2]
Connection to Troy and Broader Context
While Graves extensively retell classical Greek heroism and the The Siege and Fall of Troy for general readers, his speculative mythological framework in The White Goddess treats the heroic Age of Troy and Mediterranean Bronze Age cultures as part of the same vast, shifting matrix of myth that later fed into Celtic and Welsh bardic traditions. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Modern academic scholarship largely treats Graves’s sweeping etymologies and historical reconstructions as idiosyncratic and romanticized poetry rather than literal anthropology, though his work profoundly shaped modern paganism and fantasy literature. [1, 2]
🎶Ohtani up...ground out...to top of eighth...Dante chose Virgil as his mentor in his journey thru Hell-Dante's Inferno...
✨️There are no dreamers or specific circles for "dreamers" in Dante's Inferno. Dante does not sleep or experience prophetic dreams while traveling through Hell. [1]
The famous prophetic morning dreams in The Divine Comedy all take place later in the second part of the epic, Purgatorio, when the pilgrim rests on the mountain of Purgatory. [1, 2, 3]If you meant a different literary work, a specific video game adaptation, or if you want to explore the dreams that happen in Purgatorio, let me know how you'd like to proceed!
- The Dream: Dante dreams he is a young prince named Ganymede on Mount Ida, hunted down and snatched up by a massive, golden-feathered eagle. The eagle carries him up into the "sphere of fire," burning them both so intensely that the heat wakes him up in terror. [1, 2, 3]
- The Reality: While Dante slept, Saint Lucy physically picked him up from the Valley of the Rulers and carried him up to the locked gates of Purgatory proper. The eagle's fire symbolized the purifying intense love he was about to face. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
- The Dream: Dante encounters a deformed, stammering woman with crooked feet and severed hands. As he stares at her, his gaze magically transforms her into a stunningly beautiful Siren who sings of how she enchanted Ulysses. Suddenly, a holy lady appears and orders Virgil to step forward. Virgil rips open the Siren's clothes, exposing her rotting belly; the stench is so terrible that Dante snaps awake. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
- The Reality: This dream happens right before Dante ascends to the upper terraces of Purgatory. The Siren represents the sins of the flesh (greed, gluttony, and lust), which look beautiful at first but hide total corruption underneath. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- The Dream: Dante falls asleep on the final steps of the mountain and dreams of a young, beautiful woman named Leah walking through a meadow, gathering flowers to weave into a garland. In the dream, Leah mentions that her sister Rachel sits all day long in front of a mirror, quietly admiring her own eyes.
- The Reality: This dream takes place just as Dante is about to step into the Earthly Paradise (the Garden of Eden). The Old Testament sisters represent the perfect balance of a holy life: Leah represents the active Christian life, while Rachel represents the contemplative life of meditation and looking toward God. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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