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Who Says You Can't Go Home? Virgil Does.

Who Says You Can't Go Home? Virgil Does.

Young Heretics · Spencer A. Klavan

April 11, 20251h 1m

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Show Notes

It's time to embark on Book III of the Aeneid, and with it a mini-Odyssey. But there's a catch: Odysseus had home waiting for him at the end of all his wanderings. Aeneas has left home behind him, and he can never return. This episode is about why that's so important--for Virgil, for Augustus, for Rome at the dawn of its imperial age, and for America on the verge of its 250th birthday. Plus: my daily routine does not involve rubbing banana peel on my face. But it does involve the liturgy of the hours. 100/10 would recommend!

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