Cards (12)

  • book 10, book 12
  • like Thetis in the Iliad
  • an immortal caught between the worlds of Fate, divine manipulation and love for her mortal family
  • her immortality is a gift from Jupiter as the 'price of her ransomed virginity'
  • she is a victim on all counts
  • raped by Jupiter
  • blackmailed by Juno
  • given immortality which consigns her to eternal grieving for her brother
  • Virgil could've used any deity to help Turnus
  • using his sister allows him to inject a greater element of human pity
  • this is no Olympia acting in divine pique
  • it is a sister desperately trying to save her brother