The Epics in World Lit

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We've been learning about Greek and Roman Literature. We've read two epics and the one's that the class has read is The Death of Hektor and The Meeting of Hektor and Andromache from the Iliad. I have only read the death of Hektor, and those are both from Greek Literature. We care all currently working on reading The Passion of the Queen from the Aeneid. I have only gotten a few pages into The Passion of the Queen but so far its good, they're talking about Dido, the queen of Carthage, and how she has lost her husband in war. She claims that he has died and failed her and she's all depressed. But her sister Anna is trying to talk her out of being depressed and to look at the positive side of everything not the negative. On the next page of the story it talks about how Dido got shot with an arrow by a hunter on accident. She feels as if she is weak and it says "But though she runs for life through copse and glade the fatal shaft clings to her side." I'm not quite sure how to comprehend that to my understanding but I take it as she's okay, guess reading more in the story will let me know. The picture that I have is a scene from Troy, its the Trojan Horse, in how Hektor fought at one point in time.