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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Ann Patty, a highly successful woman in the world of book editing in New York City, is ejected into unwelcome retirement during the Great Recession.
A survey of what Roman law courts were like. (via @CarolineLawrenc) Reconstructed views of Rome. (via @Caecilius_CLC) Paint a tombstone from Roman Britain and learn
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One week ago today, I, accompanied by one of my colleagues and ten of my students, was flying over the Atlantic. Our destination was Rome,
