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Ep. 26: What It Takes to Rule the World

Ep. 26: What It Takes to Rule the World

Young Heretics · Soundfront

November 10, 20201h 15m

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Show Notes

How you think about your founding fathers determines how you think about yourself. That's something America is learning right now, and it's something of which ancient civilizations were acutely aware. In this episode of "Young Heretics," Spencer Klavan tells the story of how the Trojan hero Aeneas became Ancient Rome's central founding figure through Virgil's "Aeneid"—and what that means for politics in Rome and America.

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