How Vergil Brings Readers Into a Storm
Prior to lines 81-91 of the Aeneid, Juno has Aeolus send a storm to Aeneas and his crew. In these lines, using various rhetorical devices...
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Brutality and Loyalty: Chariot Racing in the Roman Republic and the Rise of the Roman Empire
Throughout its history, Rome has been characterized both by values we would consider negative: brutality, violence, and pride, as well as...
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Colonization in the Odyssey
The archaic period in Ancient Greece was a time marked by the formation of city-states and the codification of epic poetry as a means of...
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Propaganda and the Erosion of Roman Values in Augustan Rome as Represented by Vergil
Vergil's epic poem, the Aeneid , was explicitly commissioned by Augustus as a propaganda tool designed to legitimize his reign and...
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