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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Today’s post comes to you by way of Emily Landau, a Latin teacher at the Eaglebrook School in MA. She shares with you her experience
Summer Registration for the CANE Summer Institute is open. (15-20 July in Providence, RI, USA) Immersion Latin in Rome, for beginners and for teachers. (24
I came across this map when reading the Catalog of Ships in Iliad Book 2. It helped make sense of the geography of the Catalog.
Lydia’s Teaching Bag Quis the Owl This is a stuffed owl that a friend gave me. The owl’s name is either Quis or Qui, depending
