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