Ovid and Weirdness

Ovid was a strange one, he seems to purposely challenge the contemporary values and morals at the time. He was constantly pushing the envelope to see what exactly he could get away with. He was basically the South Park of his time.
If Ovid was around today we would probably be a big fan of South Park and the American Pie movies. The American Pie series was just a set of movies where they were saying, "Ok let's see exactly how disgusting this movie can be and if we get away with it, then we're gonna keep making them."
Of course I think Ovid was banished for his racy writings. I guess Augustus Caesar wasn't ready for South Park. No wonder the Roman Empire fell they just weren't ready for South Park.

Another enormous shield

In the Aeneid, just like in the Iliad. One of our characters is given a shield in which a Stephen King novel could be written on it. These guys must have been pretty strong to carry these things. Achilles shield was so big and had so much stuff written on it that it took three pages to read about and half through it I forgot what I was reading about.
Aeneas' shield however was a little different it had the future on it, whoa pretty cool. It talked about the future of Rome and what the weather was going to be like and what color his kids eyes were gonna be and how well the harvest would be in the sixth autumn following an election year----ENOUGH!! I want to see this shield and if I ever get my hands on it I'm going straight to the Antique Road Show.
Also, why can't someone just have one name or reference. The trojans were Ilians or Dardans and I spend more time reading footnotes than anything. I was just talking about this to my friend Darren. 1

1. His name is Actually John Darren we just call him Darren. He's an old friend from school. He works for the fire department.

There how does it feel.