Anias and his men are shipwrecked on the shores of a strange land. The queen invites them to a feast, where she asks Anias to tell her how they ended up there. "Too deep for words, O queen, is the grief you bid me renew," he writes. He describes leaving Troy with the city burning around him.
In Virgil's epic poem, The Aeneid, few Trojans survive the destruction of their city at the hands of their Greek enemies. A prince, Aeneas, leads a band of those fleeing Troy - but the journey is fraught with deadly storms and hungry monsters.
But Aeneas takes a positive view of the struggles he and the other Trojans face, telling them to be proud of their resilience and courage. With the help of MIT classics professor Stephanie Frampton, Dr Laurie Santos explores how The Aeneid can be read as a tale of post-traumatic growth and how we can sometimes emerge happier and stronger from tragic events.
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