The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...
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Watering Ancient Rome
We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about the Romans' sophisticated water distribution system, including its elegant aqueducts. Here's what he told us: NOVA ...
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Inside the origins of modern Valentine's Day celebrations
It's been linked to a 12th-century poem about birds mating, the Christian-martyr-turned-Saint Valentine and a deadly fertility ritual in ancient Rome, but Elizabeth Nelson, an associate professor ...
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Poetry Was an Official Olympic Event for Nearly 40 Years. What Happened?
Today’s readers are often underwhelmed by the first poem to win gold ... When officials announced that Rome would host the ...
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The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
The new regime in Washington now has a taste for something that's very old: a global empire, the way ancient Rome aspired to have ... as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack ...