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Virgil's Bieniad, the Best Poem in the Best Language
MIT professor Stephanie Frampton is a big advocate of Virgil's epic bieniad. She says it can play in helping us to understand the psychology of resilience. When I first read the Elliot as a teenager, I was struck by how well the poem's hero Anias was able to rise above the terrible tragedies he endured.