sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2008-10-18 04:46 am (UTC)

(Not that piece, though)

It's quite good. The rest of the CD is around here somewhere, but this seems to be the only song on my computer.

But tell more?

Well, for starters assume that Kassandra was a small male rabbit named Fiver . . . It's the escaping of the doomed community before its ruin, not in the midst of—Aeneas only gets out as Troy is already burning—and the search for somewhere to found a new home, with mythically close encounters along the way (Cowslip's warren is explicitly identified by Adams with the Lotos-Eaters of the Odyssey), sort of conflated with the generations-later founding of Rome; [livejournal.com profile] papersky points out that the all-male settlers of Watership Down deciding to poach some does from another warren recalls the rape of the Sabine women, while I think I could make a case for the conflict with Efrafa echoing Aeneas' war with Turnus and the Rutuli. I don't believe a point-by-point comparison would hold up. But I should go through and see just how many epic touch-pieces are in the book.

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