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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Trauma of Troy

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Virgil's Aeneid

Virgil is everyone's favorite Roman poet, and he becomes sort of the first superstar poet in the Roman world. Virgil liked Homer's epics so much that he gave them a reboot with a Roman twist. Aeneas was a kind of minor character in Homer's original epics, but Virgil put him at the center of the action.

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