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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A couple of interesting stories… Will Latin programs in France be cut by plans to reform the nation’s school system? The amazing complexity of Damascus
For years the consensus has been that when the Romans left the economy of Britain took a big hit. New research published in Antiquity and summarized in Science (389:1077,
“Unearthed papyrus contains lost scenes from Euripides’ plays” Read the article in the Harvard Gazette. “With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist” Read the article
Elegiac poetry can be beautiful or annoying, especially if you don’t have notes to go with the text. Your problem is solved here, in CANEPress’s
