Lavinia ursula le guin review6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But how to capture Vergil’s profound, magical music? In my mind, Vergil’s scenes and people began to move outside the poem, entering a different narrative form, the novel. But when a fleet of foreign warships sails into the mouth of the river Tiber, Lavinia knows her destiny is calling…įor me, to love a text in a foreign language is to long to translate it. Lavinia’s mother has other plans – to marry her daughter off to an ambitious neighbouring king – and her father is plagued with indecision. I caused mine because I wouldn’t be given, wouldn’t be taken’īy the sacred springs in the forests near her home, Lavinia, young princess of Latium, encounters a poet – a soothsayer – who foretells her future: to marry a Trojan hero named Aeneas and found a great kingdom and a mighty dynasty. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. Trigger Warning: Abuse, Child Abuse (emotional, physical), Rape (mentions) Content Warning: War, Violence, Animal Sacrifice ![]()
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