Lavinia - Ursula Le Guin
Lavinia - Ursula Le Guin 'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her…
Specifikacia Lavinia - Ursula Le Guin
Lavinia - Ursula Le Guin
'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her.
Now of an age to wed, Lavinia's mother favours her own kinsman, King Turnus of Rutulia, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. The man was famous, the fate obscure; not a bad balance.' Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father's closest companion. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods' holy place and tells her of her future, and Aeneas' past...
If she refuses to wed Turnus, Lavinia knows she will start a war - but her fate was set the moment the poet appeared to her in a dream and told her of the adventurer who fled fallen Troy, holding his son's hand and carrying his father on his back...