Episode 040 - Livy and Virgil

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Jun 7, 201823:39Education

Episode 40 – Livy and Virgil — Instead, people die the day nobody ever talks about them, or even thinks about them. A biography episode in The Tale of Rome. We compare and contrast two giants of their time. Livy and Virg...

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