{"id":333,"date":"2016-03-24T16:44:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/?p=333"},"modified":"2016-03-28T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:28:58","slug":"eryxerice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/sicily\/eryxerice\/","title":{"rendered":"Eryx\/Erice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning of Book V of <em>The Aeneid<\/em>, Aeneas and the Trojans sail away from Dido and the kingdom of Carthage. Although they seek\u00a0Latium, the promised land, a storm pushes them east and they head\u00a0towards the shores of Eryx in northwestern Sicily (\u201clitora fida\u2026fraterna Erycis portusque Sicanos<i>\u201d<\/i> <i>the friendly, brotherly shores of Eryx and Sicilian habors<\/i>: lines 23-24). Eryx is known today as Erice, renamed by &#8220;lover of Classics,&#8221; Benito Mussolini.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-373 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_7782-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7782\" width=\"379\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_7782-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_7782-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_7782-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As the Trojan ships pull into shore, Vergil notes that Acestes observes them from the top of a hill overlooking the sea\u00a0(\u201cex celso miratus vertice montis adventum\u2026Acestes\u201d <i>from the lofty peak of a mountain, Acestes wondered at their arrival<\/i>\u00a0lines 35-36). He also describes the shore as being surrounded by woodlands (\u201cconsonat omne nemus\u201d <i>the whole forest made noise<\/i>: line 149).\u00a0In addition, during the boat race, we learn that sharp rock ridges that jut out into the water (\u201cprocurrentibus saxis\u201d <i>rocks jutting out<\/i>: line 204; and \u201cacuto in murice\u201d <i>in the sharp shellfish\/rockridge<\/i>: line 205) line parts of the shore. I fantasized\u00a0that the\u00a0view (pictured above) from the hill which we were climbing\u00a0was the same sight which Acestes himself would have taken in as he saw the Trojans ships approach his shores. I traced my eyes along the rocky coastline\u00a0and imagined the boats of Mnestheus, Gyas, Sergestus, and Cloanthus racing to finish in first place.\u00a0The twenty or so minutes climbing up this hill very well might have been my most cherished twenty minutes of the entire <em>Spedzione Siciliana.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning of Book V of The Aeneid, Aeneas and the Trojans sail away from Dido and the kingdom of Carthage. Although they seek\u00a0Latium, the promised land, a storm pushes them east and they head\u00a0towards the shores of Eryx in northwestern Sicily (\u201clitora fida\u2026fraterna Erycis portusque Sicanos\u201d the friendly, brotherly shores of Eryx and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicily","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}