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petebrown
petebrown
David Mendelsohn, “Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique?”: Months later, when I was back home teaching Greek and Roman classics again, it occurred to me that the difficulties we have with Aeneas and his epic cease to be difficulties once you think of him not as a hero ... explodingcomma.com
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smokey
smokey

@petebrown This is one of those things where you see your eyes open and the lightbulb click on as you read it.

kitt
kitt

@smokey @petebrown yes. 💡💡