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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Ancient coins and money are great ways to tie in curriculum goals and interests in broader themes of art, propaganda, history, and government. Even Latin
EDSITEment! has lesson plans on a variety of topics, sorted by ages and categories. There are ones on Pompeii, Latin, and other topics from the
NoDictionaries.com/ is a really useful website for reading Latin texts. It takes any Latin text that you enter in (and it already has a lot
Alpheios is a plug-in for Firefox that shows on-demand glossing and grammatical data for ancient texts. Memrise is another memorization website (like Quia, Quizlet, or
