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In today's anti-immigrant rhetoric, echoes of Virgil's 'Aeneid'

  • Written by Peter E. Knox, Eric and Jane Nord Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University
imageFederico Barocci's 1598 painting 'Aeneas' Flight from Troy.'Wikimedia Commons

Boatloads of refugees put ashore in Italy after a wearying journey at sea; the city they adored, Troy, now a smoking ruin after 10 years of a desperate war; many loved ones dead from the conflict, with others lost along the way, victims of violence, storms or age.

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