![]() ![]() The war is certainly a dramatic delay, and it is one that seems gratuitous, since Latinus and his family were quite content to fulfill prophecy by marrying Lavinia off to Aeneas before Juno injected her fury. Jove declares to Juno that she can delay but not fundamentally alter fate. ![]() If we compare Dido’s unfated death with Jove’s “may the best man win” hand-washing, I begin to wonder if we are to take the entire Latian War, including its brutal outcome, as a deviation from fate. The whole Latian War is narrated under the sign of the Muse of Love, another intrusion of the feminine realm into matters of geopolitics. Juno is explicitly allied with the female Furies, carrying forward Achilles’ rage in a distinctly feminine key - not only in her own person, but in the Fury with which she inspires (or possesses) the new Achilles, Turnus. The fact that the chain of fate can be broken by a surplus of female agency fits with the overall pattern of the plot, where it is above all feminine rage that threatens to disrupt fate. The conflict between two female gods ends in the suicide of their human pawn, outside the bounds of fate and merit. It’s as though there are too many competing fates at work here, opening up the space for Dido’s own self-destructive agency. Venus is playing the long game, trying to foment enmity between the Carthaginians and the proto-Romans, while Juno sees an opportunity to ally her beloved Carthaginians with the Trojans, cutting off the independent existence of the latter. This fateless status is striking because the two female goddesses whose conflict determines the course of the plot - the pro-Trojan Venus and anti-Trojan Juno - have converged on Dido, both for their own reasons. Latin: “nec fato, merita nec”), catches the spiritual infrastructure unawares, so that Iris has to remove her spirit from her body rather than Proserpina. She is doomed, she is tragic, but her death, which is “not fated or deserved” (Fagles trans. There is one character who does not seem to have a fate: Dido. But this fate seems strangely fragile: it requires much hands-on attention from the gods, especially at first, and ultimately the outcome is decided by the human antagonists Aeneas and Turnus after Jove makes a showy declaration of his neutrality. ![]() First, there is a clear meaning, an arc of history tending toward the Pax Romana, which will bring law, order, and eternal peace to all the world. This is a different kind of fate from what we see in Greek mythology, which is as inexorable as it is meaningless. All month long XM satellite 65 “The Rhyme” has been promoting “Dogg-vember.” Every so often you’d hear a message from Snoop Dogg promoting his “Welcome to the Church” show, or a week of classic West coast raps, or a song from his new album, or he’d simply say “Tha Blue Carpet Treatment drops November 21st.The Aeneid is a book about fate. That don’t have nothin’ to do with The Rhyme – I just wanted to say that shit.” If this album was promoted as hard on other media outlets as it was on satellite radio then Snoop should have no problem with album sales this week, despite going head up with Jay-Z’s first official album since “retirement” and a brand new posthumous 2Pac album. Snoop traditionally does well anyway thanks to a loyal fanbase that has followed him through thick and thin – label changes, producer changes, a mountain of legal problems and a life that’s got more ups and downs than a roller coaster from hell. ![]() Still through almost a dozen albums Snoop has done one thing consistantly with each and every released – charted hits. A lot of people in the last year or two have proclaimed that they are “bringing the West coast back” in their raps, but since Snoop never left, how could the West coast ever leave? He’s been holding this shit down since 1992. With the “Dogg-vember” in full swing it was time for Snoop to do his thing and release another hot single, although “Vato” seemed like a pretty odd choice. “I was chillin, right around my way (way!) That’s not a knock on the song itself in any way, as The Neptunes knock out one of their most gangster beats while B-Real makes the song feel surreal with his chorus contribution, but it just seemed like way too hard of a song to ever successfully crossover: #Jamie foxx snoop dogg psst full Gįools don’t respect nuttin but the gangbang (bang!) Talkin shit with his homies like he was a straight. ![]()
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