RomanSlash!

[anima_mecanique]

Um...hi. First post here, though I've been reading every word of the community up until now.

At the apt suggestion of chefkatsuya and because I'm absolutely obsessed with ancient Rome, I wrote a Vergil/Maecenas fic. Vergil, of course, being the author of (among other things) the Aeneid, and Maecenas being his wealthy, upper-class patron who always looked out

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[deerlike]

It's really very lovely, so you needn't be nervous. (nervous like our friend Virgil, perhaps? mea culpa, being a geek. :P)

One wonders if there might not be unrequited love involved between Horace and Virgil, or if they were simply very close friends, and so on. I only wish that we knew that it was more than our speculation from whatever few sources we have. I think that ode was the sincerest, and most enjoyable thing to translate in our book of Odes by Horace; considering how everything else was either tongue-in-cheek sarcastic or thinly-disguised contempt (mostly for Augustus). It's almost like for Virgil, his comrade in arms, he could feel true emotion. But I may enjoy the poet-slash element a touch more than I'm willing to admit. (no, I did not slash The Inferno, whydoyouask? *sheepish*)

Hmm, a love-∆...? And so the bunnies were birthed. Interesting, I'll have to dig up my Horace-notes from last year. ;)

*g* I've translated Catullus, last year in fact, during our first semestre and I can tell you that while we didn't translate as many slashy poems as I'd have liked, (we focused more on the Lesbia-dedicated ones, to explore "carpe diem" and his affair with the older woman), we still touched upon them enough for me to giggle. Catullus isn't so much of an "angsty" fellow as he is...crude, in a very amusing way. At least to anyone who doesn't find sodomy distasteful. *g* I'm sure Catullus would argue the maturity level of his subject matter, if not his subject matter itself.