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Mythological Allusion
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In case anyone is curious about the reference in the last panel of Sunday, August 17, 2025's Dick Tracy:
"Wasn’t Pallas able to burn the Argive fleet, to sink it in the sea, because of the guilt and madness of one single man, Ajax, son of Oileus [i.e., Ajax the Lesser, or Ajax the Locrian]? She [Juno*] herself hurled Jupiter’s swift fire from the clouds, scattered the ships, and made the sea boil with storms: She caught him up in a water-spout, as he breathed flame from his pierced chest [i.e., pierced by lightning], and pinned him to a sharp rock"
-Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1
In other words, Juno struck Ajax the Locrian in a chest with a bolt of lightning, thus drawing the parallel with the weapon being used by Tess LaKoyle.
*Different translations refer to Athena or Minerva, as well as Juno. W.F. Jackson Knight's translation for Penguin Books (1956) refers to Juno.
"Wasn’t Pallas able to burn the Argive fleet, to sink it in the sea, because of the guilt and madness of one single man, Ajax, son of Oileus [i.e., Ajax the Lesser, or Ajax the Locrian]? She [Juno*] herself hurled Jupiter’s swift fire from the clouds, scattered the ships, and made the sea boil with storms: She caught him up in a water-spout, as he breathed flame from his pierced chest [i.e., pierced by lightning], and pinned him to a sharp rock"
-Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1
In other words, Juno struck Ajax the Locrian in a chest with a bolt of lightning, thus drawing the parallel with the weapon being used by Tess LaKoyle.
*Different translations refer to Athena or Minerva, as well as Juno. W.F. Jackson Knight's translation for Penguin Books (1956) refers to Juno.
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