
The Writing on The Wall
The TLS Podcast
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The Souvenirs of the Roman Empire
Virgil is a totally magical poet. He now seems to us to be kind of absolutely kind of taken for granted poet but he's the rap artist of the late first century BCE. And just that line that we have, armour, we're on Quay Cano. We think, oh yeah, you know everybody says that don't they? Arms of the man I sing. What he's saying is absolutely kind of in your face he's saying do you know what I'm going to do in my poem? The only dating evidence we've got really is what would have been the shape of the container and also the way the handwriting is done because even in modern Britain handwriting changes over
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