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Myth and Legend Reimagined: Charlotte Higgins and Dr Amy Jeffs in conversation
Intelligence Squared
The Origin Myth of Rome and Britain
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Every western european nation really has got an origin myth that connects it to troy and the trojans, because everyo e wants to have an origin myth. I love this myth so much. That's in geoffrey of monmouth, right? That a brutus irl breach sail wit wit, a descendant of one of these trojan refugees, and came and founded,. or aleast founded, one of the sort of wellsprings of the british people. And you see so many echoes. The one that i was particularly struck by was the mother baring her breasts to try and placate her son, yo ar, now grown up, warring
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