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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This week we’re pleased to bring you an article from Katy Reddick, a middle school Latin teacher in Durham, CT and long-time CANE enthusiast. Slavery is
I abandoned giving midyear and final exams to my third-year Latin students about five years ago. Now, as my discipuli were soon to learn to their
Catullus Online is a very thorough website of information on Catullus. It has images of manuscripts, a copious bibliography, and a detailed app crit. (via
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
