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Episode CXIX - Fragments of Early Roman Literature

Emperors of Rome

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The Relationship Between Homer and Aneass

Aeneas himself makes very explicit, with homer. He anus is homer reincarnated via a short stay as a peacockhh. Bat then when you look at the ball paintings from pompey that show peacocks ore srangtay like o has some kind of connection in terms of what the romans believed peacocks were symbolical. That's really interesting. I want to ask maybe about the looking backwards and looking forwards from the point of view of poetry like aneass. Talk about that a bit more.

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