The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
One of the blueprints for imperialism has always been The Aeneid, by the Roman poet Virgil, working between 29 and 19 BCE.
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“Arma virumque cano,” Vergil begins, and with these words readers plunge headlong into an epic account of battles, upheaval and the suffering endured by upright Aeneas, who flees the ruins of Troy to ...