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How To Build An Empire: The Aeneid Guide to Understanding U.S. Politics

Published 11 months, 3 weeks ago
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For leaders who built empires throughout history, Virgil's Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to someone else. Now when empires are making a comeback, it's worth asking if the epic poem is propaganda, or does it carry a message about the horrors of empire, too?

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