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Chapter 3 of The Bloody Funny History of Rome begins with
Homer's Illogical Iliad, the Odious Odyssey
and The Other Secret Roman Iliad Homerus Latinus written in Latin for those that can't read
Greek. We look at Virgil's epic Annoyed Aeneid and
what was Found in translation by Chaucer who "pray that my English be understonde, God I
beseech!" and the Scottish Eneados "hoots mon!"
Aeneas taunts the Cyclops
("Hah, Odysseus may say he's No-Body, but I'm Any-Ass!"),
seduces the Queen of Carthage (Libido of Dido) and visits the Underworld
- "May the gods not blast me for revealing the secrets of the
Afterlife!" We laugh at Servius' hilarious Commentary
on the Aeneid (which still hasn't been translated into goode
English), the Virgilomastix (Virgil-whipper), Fracastoro's epic Syphilis, or the French
Pox, and
Geoffrey of Monmouth's amazing British King History which shows how the British are descended from the Trojans
too!
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