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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Lydia’s Bag Here’s the list of what I was using at the start of the year. Color-coded folders I’m still using the folders to keep
Lots of Links! Medieval bilingual picture book with animals and their sounds. Quaestio manet: quid dicit vulpes? http://t.co/M37KzEw4mG #latinteach — Magister Revkin (@brevkin) May 17,
Following up on last week’s post, here are two adaptations of Pliny’s Vesuvius letter for different levels. We hope you enjoy reading these with your
After a little under a decade of of strict, schoolmarm-ish attention to the old-fashioned grammar-translation method of Latin, last year I had my perceptions realigned by
