[HN Gopher] All that was mortal: Walking through the Protestant ...
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       All that was mortal: Walking through the Protestant Cemetery in
       Rome
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-04-26 22:58 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | exar0815 wrote:
       | What is also very worth visiting is the german cemetry in the
       | center of the vatican - if you are allowed to. To be allowed to
       | enter, you have to request entrance in german language with the
       | swiss guard stationed at a specific gate.
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       | It really is an otherwordly place of calm and green in the center
       | of the absolute chaos that is rome.
        
       | schoen wrote:
       | > It's a gathering of souls who, for better and worse, sought out
       | a good life and met death on an odyssey-- or, to use a more
       | accurate term, an "aeneid," for Odysseus' journey brings him back
       | to where he started, whereas Aeneas, the Trojan hero and begetter
       | of what becomes Rome, dies on his destined journey, far from the
       | home destroyed by Odysseus' ruse.
       | 
       | Huh? Aeneas doesn't die in the _Aeneid_.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_12:_Final_battle_a...
        
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