Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 9 Pater (Fathers and Sons)
Description
In this episode, politics come to the forefront as Katrina explains the historical context to Augustus' principate and the grizzly proscriptions (cw: violence) and Caroline explains two different schools of thought about Virgil's poetic intentions: the Optimists and the Pessimists.
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