{"id":117,"date":"2006-03-21T21:39:53","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T02:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=117"},"modified":"2013-09-01T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:47:12","slug":"amusing-comment-in-ap-vergil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Comment in AP Vergil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the funeral games in <em>Aeneid<\/em> V, which we read in English &#8212; none of it is in the AP selections &#8212; all five of the participants in the foot-race are given prizes (340-61). Vergilians will recall that Euryalus, Helymus, and Diores take first, second, and third place, but Salius is given a consolation-prize because he was in first place before Nisus tripped him, and Nisus is then given a consolation-prize because he was in first place until he slipped on some blood and cow-dung and fell down, after which he tripped Salius to help his lover Euryalus.  As one of my students (call him &#8216;M.C.&#8217;) put it, Aeneas &#147;is like some YMCA guy, giving prizes to everybody, even the losers&#148;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the funeral games in Aeneid V, which we read in English &#8212; none of it is in the AP selections &#8212; all five of the participants in the foot-race are given prizes (340-61). Vergilians will recall that Euryalus, Helymus, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,44,87],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","category-latin-literature","category-work-teaching","tag-vergil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}