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NATO, Submarines and Looking Back on Tragedy

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The Importance of Confidence in Classics

I was really that was one of the reasons I got interested in classics because when you started reading Hesiod or Virgil, Georgics, economics. That's why I wrote a couple books on ancient farming. Ovid, excuse me, and Eurydice and Orpheus when he looks back. It's kind of like the lot myth but it's in classical antiquity and she turns into nothing. He's told he can bring her back up to the real world. If he just doesn't look back, if he Doesn't Have Confidence is all about have confidence when you're on a perilous mission. Don't double guess yourself.

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