Mean Girls
May 9, 2025
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May 9, 2025
Mean Girls
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Brandon Van Dyck Episodes Around May 9, 2025
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<p>This is it: Book 4 of the <em>Aeneid</em>. The storm of love that's been brewing now breaks into full force. Two human sisters start flirting with disaster while two divine frenemies enter into a catty pseudo-alliance. It's a nuclear-grade meltdown of relations between the sexes, all taking place under the soaring vault of destiny. Dido transforms before our eyes into a deranged Greek tragic heroine on the model of Phaedra or Medea, while Juno and Venus find their power dynamic flipped on its head from what it used to be in Homer. It's master craftsmanship and master politics on Virgil's part...and hot tea for us.</p> <p>Check out our Sponsor, The Ancient Language Institute: <a href="https://ancientlanguage.com/heretics">https://ancientlanguage.com/heretics</a></p> <p>Order Light of the Mind, Light of the World (and rate it five stars): <a href="https://a.co/d/2QccOfM">https://a.co/d/2QccOfM</a></p> <p>Subscribe to be in the mailbag: <a href="https://rejoiceevermore.substack.com">https://rejoiceevermore.substack.com</a></p>
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