Sunday 4 March 2018

Night Sky On Aeneas

Both moons whiten stone and sand. Lavinia rises. Creusa hurtles.

"The Milky Way was a frozen cascade from horizon to horizon."
-Poul Anderson, The Day Of Their Return IN Anderson, Captain Flandry:Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 74-238 AT 4, p. 102.

Another Virgilian planet, Anchises, is yellow. (In mythology, Anchises is Aeneas' father.) Alpha and Beta Crucis and the moons cast shadows.

That is a considerable amount of information especially if you follow the links for the mythological explanations of the names of the heavenly bodies.

1 comment:

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the image of the aged Anchises being carried by his son Aeneas from the flaming ruins of a falling Troy has stuck in my mind!

Sean