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Ideas worth spreading (Những ý tưởng đáng lan truyền)

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    TED-Ed.Why.should.you.read.Virgils.Aeneid.EN
  • A commentary by
    Beringen1
  • In 19-BC, Roman poet Vergilius suffered heatstroke and died on his journey back to Italia. On his deathbed, he thought about the manuscript he had been working on for over ten years, an epic poem called the Aeneis. Unsatisfied with the final edit, he asked his friends to burn it. But they refused, and soon after Vergilius's death, Augustus ordered it to be published. Why ?
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