Why did Virgil write the Aeneid? Why did he want it destroyed at his death? What do scholars have to say about this? Was it propaganda? How much influence did the experience of the Punic Wars have on the story? Here’s a review of Dr. Elena Guisti’s 2017 book, Making Rome Great Again: Fake Views in the Ancient World, written during Trump’s first presidency.
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The following essay was written by Brendan Morrison, the winner of CANE’s Thomas and Eleanor Means Fund scholarship for educational travel to classical sites. This scholarship is
Check out “Ex Ithaca Cum Amore“, a film adaptation of the “Odyssey” being distributed in many languages, including Latin and Greek. Where did punctuation come
