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No free hugs in the afterlife

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Dec 13, 2021
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Statius tries to give Virgil a hug, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48, p. 99 (possibly Genoa, 14th century)

One of the most memorable scenes in Virgil's Aeneid is that when Aeneas travels to the Underworld to meet his dead father Anchises. When Aeneas sees him, he leaps to embrace him, but soon realises his father was but a shadow, and his cl…

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