To appease a certain milkmaid who is apparently bored by my endless discussion of hedge funds, here's an article about the classics instead.

Ah, the Aeneid. It's a troublesome, messy poem, but it's worth reading just for the sake of the last fifteen lines, in which pious Aeneas, faced with the chance to spare his enemy's life, instead...well, I won't give it away, but let's just say that it's one of the greatest, most subversive sick jokes in all of Western literature.

At least, that's my take. I'm curious to see what Fagles does with it.