The Staxu Vlaecun

The Staxu Vlaecun tells a story that appears in the near-dwritten by the great Roman poet Virgil. The setting is the Trojan War and lots of episodes from the Trojan War come from Virgil, not from Homer. But this isn't the reason the snakes have been sent. This is because Lao Con has done something quite else. And so the snakes are crushing him for a quite different offence. What you get there is the sense that mortals are the playthings of the gods.