what's up guys and welcome back to monique if you guys are new here then what is that my name is erica hey how you doing and if you're into the history of the ancient greeks and the romans maybe you're just into the mythology and maybe maybe you're just here because you want to hear about the wooden horse incident in mythology well then this is not only the video for you this is also the channel for you you guys are going to want to hit that subscribe button and the bell icon so you know every single time post in the future but on top of today's video and as you can see from the title we're going to be going into virgil ceneered book 2. so if i could summarize book 2 into one sentence it would be that the greeks create a giant wooden horse and defeat the trojans this is one of the most if not the most famous moment in all of mythology but i just want to say a note here just so that everybody can remember that this is a roman myth it's a re-telling of a greek myth obviously it's a retelling of the greek legend of what happened between the greeks and the trojans and how exactly troy fell however we do not have this episode that survives from the creek cycle that's utterly utterly important because this account is told not only from a different point of view because it's told from aeneas point of view right who was a trojan but also it was written about 700 years later so it's a very very long time later so we have no idea if this actually matches up to the greek side of things if this is exactly what went down or if virgil is embellishing it to make the trojans look a little bit better to therefore make the italians look a little bit better we don't really know okay so just bear that in mind that this is a roman retelling of a greek myth greek legend whichever one you want to go with so in saying that why don't we just roll onto the narrative where i left you guys in the last book dido had just asked aeneas after they had eaten this feast they're all sitting around they finished eating and died at arsenious to recount how he made it from the burning walls of troy all the way to north africa which is where he's currently sitting with the queen aeneas starts this book by saying to all of the uh moved phoenicians because remember they're all phoenicians who have moved over to north africa he says to all of them you know what this is kind of a sensitive topic considering it's my home that burned to the ground but if you really want to hear the story then i guess i could tell it but just bear in mind it's a long story and it's pretty late but no okay you guys all look really excited to hear exactly how troy felt so i guess i'm telling the story now so aeneas opens by telling his audience that actually the greeks were denied victory for a very very long period of time right okay so like years and years and years they could not beat the trojans until a goddess gets involved right and that's key for this storytelling that if it wasn't for the goddess getting involved they wouldn't have had one up over the trojans so the greeks are aided by minerva and they are given this idea to build this giant wooden horse now what they do is they decide to pack up all of their you know all of their camps and put them all in the ships have the ship sail away so they go and they hide behind the island of tennessee tell us audience this hide behind the island of tenodos they leave a massive open space where they once were and in its place was this wooden horse but the wooden horse is not some like dainty teeny tiny thing right this thing is huge aeneas tells us that it's about the size of a mountain in fact it's so big that the greeks had to use um let's use like the the trunks of pine trees in order to construct the ribs okay that is how big this horse is it's massive the greeks leave it in this space as a fake votive offering form another however what they really did was hide their best soldiers inside the belly of the horse and when aeneas is telling this he says you know i know this now but at the time i had no clue none of us did ania says that the trojans see this from the safety of the city they see that there's suddenly no greeks in their camp there's suddenly this giant horse and they're a little bit tentative to go outside you know this is against meme culture on the internet by the way there are lots of memes saying that like the trojans are really dumb and they just kind of initially led in the the trojan horse without actually inspecting it and that's not true according to aeneas's uh story here in the aeneid but actually they were all really tentative to go outside and eventually they do and about 50 of the people who go outside there's a lot of men who go out to inspect this trojan horse and only about half of them actually think that they've won half of them come down to the wooden horse and they immediately start celebrating they start realizing oh they start thinking even that the greeks have now left they've gone home to mycenae and so the trojans have now won and they're celebrating they're dancing around they're screaming we won we won we're victorious but the other half of the trojans that are out there they don't buy any of this in fact a lot of them consider actually destroying the horse initially like before they even have a chance to really inspect the horse they're like nope get rid of it the men who were skeptical actually suggest three different options they suggest that they should push the horse off of a mountain they suggest that they should push it into the sea or they should just set it on fire considering it's wood it will burn whilst all the trojans are arguing though and they're outside the city they're screaming at each other trying to figure out what to do with this wooden horse there's a bellowing that comes from behind them from the city walls and city gate and this guy is running down screaming at them and this guy goes you fools how could you believe that the greeks would leave a gift for us and not have it be a distraction how could you trust them this man goes by the name of leia and he is an incredibly famous priest of apollo so when he comes down bellowing from the city everyone stops what they're doing to listen to him he says to them that possibly the horse itself is the problem right he says that this could be the issue that we have to deal with or this is a distraction to a bigger issue of the greeks infiltrating the city from a different gate he says it's much more likely that that's going on rather than the greeks just leaving us a nice gift who the do you think is part of that camp that would actually do this eulexies we suddenly trust him that's odysseus by the way in the greek so he has this moment where he yells at all of them he says he doesn't trust the greeks and in fact he says one of the most famous lines from all of roman literature and i'm going to say it to you in the latin because i'm a massive nerd and it's so beautiful in the latin it's line 49 and leia says timeo da neos edona ferentes which means i fear greeks bearing gifts and on that note before anybody can argue with him or agree with him leokun actually picks up his spear and he fires it into the belly of the wooden horse and actually when it gets in there it's thrown with such force that it like it like reverberates right like vibrates in the side of it and everybody's watching it being like he's pissed and more importantly what i think about in this scene is what was going through the greek's head inside the horse when all of a sudden this randomized spear comes jutting into the side of it and they're probably sitting there like like i don't know in this moment if it's more impressive that the greeks came up with the wooden horse or if it's the fact that they all remained silent when leia spear came bundling through anyways just my thought process continuing with the story though that before anybody can respond again to leia that as this thing is sticking out and it's the spear is sticking out and it's vibrating there's another intrusion into the meeting and in fact it's two shepherds this time and in between them they are holding a bound greek soldier so everyone stops what they're doing because they're like where does this man come from the shepherds tell the assembly initially that they don't know who he is they didn't question him too much they just found him in the field he was very willing to hand himself over he was very willing to get bound by the risk found by the ankles he didn't put up a fight and he just was so willing to come to the whole trojan assembly and so they're like there's a little bit fishy aeneas as he's telling the story to dido and to his current audience in the moment he says that now he knows that this man was part of the scheme but at the time they had no idea they had no idea that the trojan horse was part of a scheme they had no idea that this greek soldier coming in was part of the scheme and it's now in the story that he says if the gods were on their side then leia would have demanded that the horse be open in that moment and it didn't matter what this greek soldier then said because they would have seen all of the other greek soldiers hidden inside the belly but unfortunately the gods were not on their side because the belly of the horse wasn't open and this man began to speak so everybody prompts the greek soldier to speak and initially he just says the reason why he handed himself over is because uh he was outcast by the greeks and he's on enemy soil so he was like i couldn't have won either way the greeks hate me you guys hate me so everybody who kind of wants me dead so if you guys actually want to kill me then i'm sure the greeks would actually come back to pat you back on the back they'd be like thanks so much we hate this man you guys kill them we're all friends again which obviously catches the trojans off guard a little bit because they're a little bit curious as to who he is they don't really trust him at this point and so priyam comes forward and he asks the man who he is where he's come from and what exactly happened that made the greeks want to turn against him because that's like unheard of in the ancient world that you would turn against a man of your own army so our little greek captive answers him the greek captive says that his name is sainon it is spelt like this i'm not sure if it's cenon in the greek or if it said cynon i have always said sign on though so we are going to keep saying sign on in this video however sinon introduces himself as sion he then says that he was brought from argos which is where he's from in greece he was brought over by uh the leader pali medes over to troy and over to trojan soil and he says that initially when he came it was fine it was fun he got on with everybody but very quickly he started to make enemies with ulixies and ulixies did not like him for a plethora of reasons that he does list but i'm not going to go into in this video it's not that important for the narrative so you literally start hating him and he starts spreading rumors and throughout the camp to make everybody else dislike cyan which obviously has thrown sign on a little bit off now the reason why this ends up being such a problem is because not only is sinon then outed socially from everybody but there hits a point where uh the goddess minerva is super pissed at the greek army and the greek army don't know why now they realize that minerva but also probably apollo is mad at them because the greeks have decided at one point or another that they want to surrender and they want to disappear from troy they just decided the war isn't worth it but every single time they get into their boats there's either no wind or there's too much wind so either it's going to be dangerous to set sail or they they can't set sail because there's no wind to take them naturally the greek army are just like well what the do the gods want from us so they send somebody called yuri pilos by the way this is all a lie i just want to clarify as i'm telling you this story it's all a lie just bear that in mind so the greeks have sent this guy called europe lost they decided that he's gonna go to delphi as a solo person to go and see what apollo exactly wants from them so he does he gets on his little boat he travels all the way to delphi by himself stays there for a few days comes back to the greek camp and when he shows back up he says yeah so the gods are pretty pissed at us and what they've said is that because we spill greek blood in order to get to troy yeah we're gonna have to spill more greek blood to get home sorry for that bad news which obviously sets all of the greeks off the greeks are like are you joking we have to do this again we don't want to fidgenie a 2.0 but if this is the only way we can go home i guess we have to do it only because it worked the first time so it's probably gonna work a second time terrible logic but it's a lie that the trojans would believe based off of what happened for the greeks to get there so supposedly ulixie's is super pissed by this news though and he brings in calcus who is a seer so calcus comes through and they ask him you know what are we supposed to do who do the gods want are we supposed to sacrifice somebody here or what's the deal and calcus has a moment where he says yeah okay the gods clearly do want to sacrifice that is decided but i don't want to tell you who it is i don't want anybody to be put on the chopping block quite literally because i like everybody here and i don't think it's worth it and again all of the greeks super pissed at this including your looksies he is mad as calcus though doesn't say anything for ten days according to sign on story that for ten days he stays quiet and eventually on the tenth day and simon believes that he says this because everybody hated simon anyways he offers sign on up uh on a silver platter for him to be sacrificed so the day comes where sion is going to be sacrificed and he's bound you know like an animal he's dragged through like this whole procession and all of this and he starts getting really scared because obviously he doesn't want to be a human sacrifice in this moment which is totally understandable and so he breaks his bonds and he runs and he goes to hide in a bunch of reeds right and he hides there until he realizes well until he thinks it's safe enough to leave and the greeks have disappeared because they're probably going to come and kill them anyways and that's the moment where sinon then decides to walk through the trojan farms to try and get himself captured because he realizes i can't go back to greece because if i go back to greece heaven forbid they're gonna come and track me down heaven forbid they're gonna track down my family and kill them they might have already done that because they hate me so much they think that i have insulted them and the gods so what else was i supposed to do which is why he then came into uh contact with the shepherds and which is why he also then comes to the assembly very very willingly because he has no home and he's understood that again i want to clarify this is all a lie this is something that he's telling the trojans in order for the greek plan to work okay so none of this really happened this is just a story that he's telling in order for them to believe that the greeks have left so anyways the trojans hearing this story priyam is completely shook by it like he cannot believe that one they would want to do a a human sacrifice again but two that they would try and sacrifice this man who was standing right in front of them and priyam oh you guys it's so sad because it's such a cute moment priyam looks at silent and he says i i have no idea how you've endured this this is despicable on the greeks part you don't deserve this and you know what you are considered trojan now okay troy is your home we are your brothers and sisters you can absolutely stay with us but we do have a question that in order for us to trade this whole you know you become trojan we don't try and kill you even though you've tried to kill us for the last decade um what the is up with the horse we just need to know what what does this have to do with the whole story cyan obviously obliges and he has this moment where he looks up to the heavens and i'm pretty sure this is considered blasphemy but he screams up to the gods and he's just like i don't have to keep my promises to any of the greeks i'm going to tell all of their secrets and the gods can't punish me because the greeks tried to kill me again all the lie but anyways he's screaming up to the heavens so the trojans believe him at this point because they think he wouldn't do this unless he wanted to be killed by the gods hahaha jokes and cyan then explains what the horse was for and it's because minerva got super mad at the greeks because diameters and eulexies they actually go into one of minerva's temples close to troy not at roy but close to troy and they had stolen this uh palladium which is a wooden statue of the goddess now when they bring this palladium back to the greek camps the goddess immediately starts showing that she's not thrilled by this and she feels very offended they would do this and she does this by having the statue you know like smoke and like the eyes come up in flames and everything it's super spooky to the point where ulysses and diameters are schedules that they go and they call calcus to look at the statue and they're like what the is going on with this thing calcus in this lie then explains to them okay well you have to build this giant horse as an appeasement to the goddess and she'll be happy you have to obviously return the whole palladium thing because that is that's like a big no but yeah build this horse and she should be happy if you guys just leave it um and and yeah the end part of what calcus says to ulixies and diameters is the most important part of this whole lie and even aeneas has a moment where he does stress to his audience if it wasn't for this maybe you know we wouldn't have been as convinced but it's because calcus told ulixies and told diomedes that if the trojans were to see the horse once they've left if they see the horse and they defile it then it will mean that there will be uh well basically troy will be destroyed i was just gonna say that in like a really whimsical way but basically troy is gonna fall if they don't accept the offering to minerva however if they do take it into the city and if they do accept it as as a viable offering to the goddess then it would mean that troy will not fall actually that troy will be victorious it will still stand the greeks would have just surrendered and their pride will be hurt but everybody everybody will survive anees says probably one of the saddest lines at the end of this in my personal opinion that he says to his audience that cynon lied and all the trojans believed him and it sucks at the end of this when you hear this and you know exactly what's gonna happen that he's lying through his teeth at all the greeks are in the belly of the horse they're about to drag it in i mean come on this is the moment where we know that the doom of troy is just solidified and as if we needed any more convincing as if the trojans needed any more convincing after aeneas says that everyone believed sign on that there are two serpents that are sent from the island of tenants right so the gods have sent two serpents because leia is there leon is still where he is and he's sacrificing uh this oxen into all the gods he's just doing nice rituals and his two sons are there and these two serpents come along the beach and they start attacking his two sons like coiling themselves around them coiling themselves around their necks like the suns are screaming they're in total total pain and leia leaves his sacrifice to go and run forward uh to help his sons and as he's doing that snake start attacking him as well this is a very famous statue by the way so this is what it looks like it's in rome it's absolutely beautiful but this is the moment that is so famous for the trojans because if there was any last person that needed convincing that was the moment because they believed that because leia was the only person to have actually challenged the wooden horse right he threw his spear into it he actually defiled it that he and his sons were punished for it right so based off of the lie that cyron just told them that calcus had warned and said oh you know troy is gonna fall if anybody defiles this horse and then to see this happen all the trojans were like bring it the and bring it in quickly so they all start bringing in the horse and apparently when it gets to the gate of troy when it gets up to the gates that there's a threshold right there right so there's like kind of like a dip and a little bit of a ramp to get up to the city and when they try the trojans have to tug it four times until it actually gets over this threshold and into the city which is heartbreaking because it seems like fate is really on their side to be like don't do it but they still they make sure that the horse gets in there and they think they've won right they think that this is it this is a sign from the gods that the greeks are off that they are now going to be victorious they're going to go down in history for challenging this great greek army and so what do they do they spend the whole day having a festival day they celebrate the whole time they're you know screaming they're chanting they have all these ribbons everywhere the horse is drawn right into the middle of the citadel and everybody is partying around it and it's a very good last day for troy last day being the key but as night falls over troy aeneas tells the audience that that is when everything goes basically because knight falls and signon who has been given his own sleeping quarters because the trojans are so goddamn hospitable cyano comes out of his quarters and he lets loose the greatest of the greeks aeneas tells us right so a rope comes down from the wooden horse and to the ground and we've got paris whose achilles son comes out of the horse we've got menelaus agamemnon diameters eulexies they all start piling out of the wooden horse whilst all of troy is asleep in the darkness they first of all target the guards who are closest to the gates they target all of the guards that they can see kill all of them and that way they can open the gates because as this is happening the greek ships have come back round from the island of tenendos to park where they were before all of those greek soldiers are coming off of their boats and now coming into the city very very quickly this scene turns to utter mayhem they just start killing everyone in troy they're like you guys can't believe you bought that here we are and aeneas cuts the story to him actually and he's in bed because he doesn't really know what was going on he just knows that mayhem is going on and when he's in bed he gets visited by the ghost of hector so hector comes forward and aeneas actually stops him before hector can say anything in his dream ania stops him and he's like yo man what is going on he asks him like a hundred questions that are totally irrelevant to the moment and hector rightfully so ignores all of them hector's just like aeneas not now i've got to tell you he tells aeneas that it's troy's final day and that it's now aeneas job to carry on the trojan race to run out of troy to save what he can to save the household gods to save who he can to get out of the city and to move the city to a different place now he does highlight that if he was still alive it would be his job to do that but because hector has been killed as we know from the iliad he was killed by achilles that it's now in aeneas hands because aeneas is a good uh he's a good leader and so hector trusts him to do this job aeneas wakes up from the stream he's a little bit rattled by he's like what the but he can hear all of this you know crap happening outside and so he goes up to the roof of his house and where in this house is that it's sort of pulled back from uh the citadel from the center so there's lots of trees around it he's got lots of space gets up to the roof and he can see everything burning it's just all in flames so he panics rightfully so he panics and he comes downstairs and he starts putting on his armor and he opens up the front door and when he opens up the front door there's another priest of apollo outside and aeneas is like what is happening in the city like what's going on and the priest of apollo just looks to him and he says troy is falling troy's burning it's our final day get out if you can just just run there's no way that we can survive this now instead of listening to this priest of apollo he instead finishes putting on all of his armor and then he puts on his helmet and he leaves to go and fight right his first instinct is to get into battle and to save as many people as he can from the burning citadel not to worry about his family and not worry about what the ghost defector told him and not to worry about what this other priest apollo told him but that's fine that's aeneas for you so he runs into the center of the city and i have to say there are a number of different fight scenes in this moment like it goes on for a really long time but we get different names of different trojans coming up different greeks that they killed how they infiltrated all these different armies and how they actually made a good amount of progress i have to say we gotta hand it to aeneas in this moment he fights his way all the way to the palace of priyam and when he's telling the story to died oh and to all of the people he tries to wrap it up really quickly where he says you know i got to the palace uh preem died heckkeeba was in there the whole thing was on fire that was the final days of troy and then we all died and then i had to run around and then that was it and then i left and now i'm here unfortunately though his audience not happy about this like at all daijo and the phoenicians sort of egg him on and they're just like well how did priyam die like how did troy fall what happened to you how did you get out of the city you want to give us a little bit more detail because that's that's like the only part that we actually wanted to know so aeneas does have a moment where he takes a breath and he's just like all right fine you want the details i'll tell you the details but they're not happy i don't know why you keep asking me all these questions but alas he goes into the story and he starts off by telling us that he was actually in the palace when priem died and the story goes he gets into the palace and he starts seeing just fire is everywhere right okay the greeks have totally infiltrated and supposedly priyam in this moment because it's overrun by greeks and it's overrun by fire at this point he's a super old man purim but he decides it's now gonna be his time to fight bear in mind he hasn't fought in the last 10 years of the war because he's too old and now he tries to muster up the strength to protect his family and to protect his city so he's putting on all of his armor and his wife hecuba turns around and sees him doing this and goes what the f are you doing there are far more greeks than there are trojans here we're all going to die together but if we happen to survive let's at least be together like don't run off don't try and be a savior it's not going to work you're too old for that so come sit with us sit with your family buy the altar let's hope that the gods watch over so the gods spare us hopefully please and we'll sit there and take refuge and again if we all die together we will die together and if we all survive we will survive together and priyam agrees that priyam goes to sit with heckiber and with you know like his a million children at this point because there are so many sons and daughters of priyam but they all go and sit by the altar and aeneas tells us that actually one of his sons was running through the palace trying to protect all of them and fight off pirates whose achilles son who was like the most terrifying of all of the greeks at this point the son of priem is running through the palace he's getting chased by pirates and he runs all the way into the room where the altar is and right in front of priyam he's about a couple of steps from his parents and when he stands there all of a sudden he stops he looks at the king and the queen and then he vomits up blood in front of them and falls forward and behind him is revealed pierce has just killed him by stabbing him in the back which sets priam off he is not happy about this he stands up and he screams at pierce and he's like what the is wrong with you your father was a better man than you will ever be he at least respected his enemies he would have never killed a son in front of a father because it's the most disrespectful thing you can do especially to a king who do you think you are paris unfortunately doesn't give it that an old man is yelling at him and he says well i'm about to kill you so when you go down to the underworld you can tell my dad how unlike him i am boo hoo now die like he literally says the now die line and it just like always it always flabbergasts me that he says this because i'm like who the writes that into literature now that's like a villain's line in like a disney film pierce come on anywho he says that they get into a little bit of an altercation a little bit that's a massive understatement they get into a massive fight right and it ends with pierce leaning over and dragging priyam through his son's blood because obviously his sun's blood is all over the floor drags him through there and up onto the altar and when he gets praying up onto this altar he chops his head off yeah it's brutal in fact one of the lines that aeneas says is line 558 and he says that now priyam's body because obviously he doesn't have a head and his body is you know they're not they're separate the line is a corpse without a name so that is how the end of preem was was that actually he wasn't even honored like a king he wasn't given a respectful burial um he was just hacked to death on an altar lovely stuff from this book anywho let's move on aeneas now tells us that this is the moment where he decided he needed to get home right because the whole of troy is falling that like literally there's fire in the palace that all of his friends are either being engulfed by the flames they're being killed by the greeks so he's like well i should probably go make sure that my wife my son and my dad are at least gonna be in safety even if i die along the way so he goes to leave the palace and as he's leaving the palace he actually comes across helen but he sees helen hiding taking refuge in the temple of vesta seeing this aeneas just gets so pissed his blood is boiling seeing helen like this because he doesn't realize and he tells us now when he's telling the story he doesn't realize that helen does this because she's terrified that either she doesn't know if the greeks are going to even accept her maybe they'll kill her maybe the trojans are going to kill her she feels like everybody is blaming her for this whole war aeneas in this moment he didn't know that he's just hating her because obviously troy is falling in he does initially uh blame her so he starts advancing onto where helen is with his sword drawn because he wants to stab her and kill her because he thinks otherwise she's gonna go to greece she's gonna have a great life she's gonna be reunited with her husband with her daughter she's gonna go home she's going to be treated like a queen all over again and the trojan women who so hospitably accepted her into the city they're going to become her slaves they're going to become her servants and that so as he's very very close to her actually he's about to go up and stab her thankfully venus his mother steps in front of him and goes what the f do you think you're doing this is not her fault this has nothing to do with her anymore now the fall of troy is all down to the gods do not let your rage get the better of you this has nothing to do with her it has nothing to do with you and what she does in order to prove this to him in order to really calm him down is that she takes away the mist from his eyes and she tells him to turn towards the city and when he turns around he can actually see it's a beautiful scene i have to say like literature-wise the scene is stunning because he sees the gods the real form of the gods tearing away brick by brick at the walls of troy at the palace of troy everything is done by the gods and in fact there's one one of my favorite descriptions is how neptune had unhinged the part of land where troy is sitting and he's shaking it like visibly like he's just unhinged that one little part so that troy itself will fall and that's what india sees and that's all he really needs to see in order to believe that it has nothing to do with helen it has nothing to do with any mortal at this point it's now in the hands of the gods and the gods have decided that troy is is falling so this is what prompts him to run home right he's really worried about his family he goes home he goes into the threshold and he's just like right everybody dad get the up his dad lives with him dad get up we're going to leave troy we're going to escape get crayosa get my son let's go unfortunately his dad has a like classic dad moment where he's like super old man he's laying in bed and he's like no i'm so old there's no point of saving me i'm going to stay here i've already survived one siege of troy because troy was it was sieged twice but you don't need to know that this is not the second time that troy is being attacked and kisses his dad lived through the first one so he's in bed and he's just like i don't need to live through a second one and ania says okay well that's fine but we're not gonna leave without you so if you stay we're all gonna stay which obviously his wife not thrilled about crayosa is like are you joking right now like i want to leave i want to save my son but if you're both gonna be this stubborn then fine please make sure that you can give me a sword or something i'm gonna come out and fight with you because i would much rather die with you than die stuck in this home and burning up in flames aeneas isn't happy about this but krause to his wife it does actually put their son in between them to kind of remind him like what she's fighting for and what he's fighting for and so euless this little baby is scanning us he stands in between the two of them and the two parents are looking at him and india says that he has this moment where he sees this little flame appear on ascanius's head and crazy notices it too so they start trying to tap it out but it turns out it's not an actual flame so when kaise sees this and he says oh my god that looks like it's a sign from the gods and it looks like it's a sign from the gods that we need to value our lineage to come you know like our future lineage our future family if it's on ulysses head and so he calls up to the heavens and he's like jupiter if this is a sign from the gods then please let me know now that we should follow aeneas and we should leave the city and we should bring scanias and crews and not stay here to fight and obviously jupiter in that moment is like you got it and so he lets out this massive clap of thunder it scares the bejesus out of all four of them and and crisis is like i guess we're leaving so annie is thinking cox's little plan and he tells his dad to hold him to the household gods because remember hector told him to do that hon to the household gods and he says you're going to sit on my shoulders because you're too old you can't run with us you're going to sit on my shoulders i'm going to hold escanius's hand and and this is the this is the kicker crayosa you're going to follow behind us in the shadows just follow where we're going follow us out now i would like to point out that this has never worked in mythology okay let's just think of orpheus and eurydice when it was like oh don't worry you're innocent just follow off your side of the underworld you'll be fine you'll come around to the open orpheus won't this up who it up orpheus that is exactly what's going to happen now mind you the reason why i just reminded you of that is because a woman following a man out physically doing anything has never worked this is no exception so they start walking through the burning city of troy right and it's really hard to see aeneas is holding his dad holding his son's hand they're trying to move through and creatures is following behind them and when they sort of get up to the gates of of the city the back gates of the city that anky sees he turns around and he's like it's really hard to see but i think i can see these warriors and they're chasing us we need to speed up we need to get out of here in as far away as possible because they're coming for us like right now which terrifies aeneas and nania starts running along the road right he's running because he says at this moment to his current audience he's like i was really worried about my dad i was worried about my son no mention of creoso just a note so he's running along the road he decides that's not safe enough so he just veers off and starts running towards the trees starts running in and out of the woods and he only stops when he hits this a sacred grove to ceres when he hits the grove of series he stops and he gets his dad down off his shoulders who is still holding on to the household guards puts a scanias down and he looks around and he's like where the is my wife i thought she was following us not realizing that he had not only bolted without telling her but then also ran through the trees when there's smoke through them and they can barely see past their own hand he's like how come crazy wasn't following me hmm aeneas i wonder why also could he not have organized a marco polo situation with anchises all he was doing was holding on to the gods could he not have been like by the way can you also whilst watching our enemies just watch out for crazy just make sure my wife's good no he didn't set that up and so instead we're supposed to feel like this moment because when he realizes that chris isn't there he turns back around and he has this majestic stride back towards troy i'm supposed to be impressed are you joking this is what i would expect him to do and the way he tells the story is if it's super heroic that he's gonna go back into the burning city of troy to find croyosa and i'm like it's your fault that she's in this position i expect you to go and write your wrongs this aeneas is a wrong anyways as he's walking back and he's telling the phoenicians about how he has this great walk back he says you know it wasn't entirely my fault because my dad didn't notice that she wasn't behind us nor did my son as if bringing in an old man into it and bringing in a child is gonna make this better ania she's your wife she's your responsibility in this moment when you concoct a plan like this whatever it if you can't see it genuinely bothers me that inis tells the story in this way but alas he goes back into the burning city and he starts running around to try and find croissant he goes home he goes back to the citadel he sort of stops into a bunch of different houses to try and see if he can find her and he can't anywhere so he's panicking and he starts just sort of wandering through the city and just calling out her name he just starts hoping that she'll appear maybe she's hiding behind some wall that he doesn't know something or other and when he's calling her name all of a sudden her shade appears in front of him her soul appears and aeneas says when he's telling the story to dido that like he stopped his blood totally stopped moving in his body he was suddenly cold all of his hair stood up on end because he knew that this meant that creosote had died he feels really bad and he starts crying and he's like oh my god what is happening and crayosa very very calmly just looks at him and says why are you crying why are you upset if i've died here it was because the gods wanted me to die here had nothing to do with you the gods have taken me they have made me safe because think about it if i didn't die and if i'd just been wandering through if the greeks had gotten their hands on me i would be taken back to greece and i would be used as a slave there and i would forever be remembered as aeneas wife who is now our servant so really they've saved me from this life of pain and i'm here and i'm dying with my people in troy and now enes it's your responsibility to continue the trojan race right you must go find a new home for our people you must go find a new home for our son and most importantly you've got to find a new mother for our son you've got to go and find a woman who's going to raise him as her own who's going to love him and i leave this to you don't be sad it's okay i understand and literally every single woman who's reading the story is like am i supposed to believe this then not only is she very calm that you left her behind i think that's a really key point but also she's even more comfortable with him finding a new wife after she just died the likelihood of this is minimal this is how aeneas tells himself the story so that he feels better about his wife dying and having it be his fault he's like no it's fine her ghost told me it was okay and i'm reading it like no maybe what she said was the first part which is that the gods wanted me to die here and that's fine i don't believe for a second that she was like go and find a new home for our son and a new bimbo to marry in place of me because i'm that replaceable scoffiness i would like to believe that dido hearing this story for at least a moment was like i don't think any woman said that to you i don't know and it frustrates the out of me like genuinely i read it over and over again and i'm like and he is what any who that's the story that he tells us and then he says that you know he tried to hug the shade he tried to hug the soul but obviously it you know flitted away and he did this like three times to make sure that he really couldn't hug her and it was really sad and he cried a lot and then he went back out to where his son and to where his dad were by the the grove of series they're all hiding there and there's a lot more trojans that have come to meet them there and that is the moment where aeneas realizes he's going to be leading this whole group of people to found a new city and that is really where the book ends it ends with all of them walking off into not really the sunset because remember that troy has just burnt it's really just them walking off to found a new troy in this absolute uh rubble and this crazy you know destruction of a city but that's how the book ends the next book is still going to be in aeneas voice telling the story just to clarify that um because he's going to tell us how he then made it from troy itself with these people through to north africa to be sitting in front of dido that was just how troy fell um and then we're going to get the rest of the story so i will be doing that next time i hope you guys enjoyed this video i hope it helps a little bit so thank you guys so much for tuning in and we'll be seeing you next time with more videos here on moaning i'll see you then you