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urikastov's review
4.0
The Aeneid - 4/5, only complaint is really that it's way longer than it needed to be, but that's the thing about epic poems.
The Eclogues - 4/5, trash talking shepherds bitching about work? I'm here for it.
The Georgics 4/5, I'm not sure singing an epic poem is the format I'd choose to get out information on farming and husbandry but to each their own. Mostly I liked book 4 where Virgil waxed poetic on bees and beekeeping until he made it weird and went on a tangent about how some dude in Egypt told him that bees spontaneously manifest from dead cows. Further story about a guy who curses the gods because his bees died and then has to go on a long journey with his goddess mother to trap a Nereid who can give him a prophecy that might tell him what happened to his bees. Long story short. Guy catches Nereid, gets a hellscape description of how his wife is dead and that maybe he should just worry about that, and his mom says mysteriously, "yeah honey, that's just how bees are... Anyway go slaughter 4 cows and maybe you'll get a surprise." The surprise was bees. So. Many. Bees.
The Eclogues - 4/5, trash talking shepherds bitching about work? I'm here for it.
The Georgics 4/5, I'm not sure singing an epic poem is the format I'd choose to get out information on farming and husbandry but to each their own. Mostly I liked book 4 where Virgil waxed poetic on bees and beekeeping until he made it weird and went on a tangent about how some dude in Egypt told him that bees spontaneously manifest from dead cows. Further story about a guy who curses the gods because his bees died and then has to go on a long journey with his goddess mother to trap a Nereid who can give him a prophecy that might tell him what happened to his bees. Long story short. Guy catches Nereid, gets a hellscape description of how his wife is dead and that maybe he should just worry about that, and his mom says mysteriously, "yeah honey, that's just how bees are... Anyway go slaughter 4 cows and maybe you'll get a surprise." The surprise was bees. So. Many. Bees.