Pietas - lunchtimes with bella
... The story of Rome – from village to empire – is certainly grand enough for us to use the word “epic” in the modern sense. But an epic poem in the Homeric tradition, containing as it does a strong element of the divine and the supernatural, still needs a hero at its centre – a human hero who, though ...
... The story of Rome – from village to empire – is certainly grand enough for us to use the word “epic” in the modern sense. But an epic poem in the Homeric tradition, containing as it does a strong element of the divine and the supernatural, still needs a hero at its centre – a human hero who, though ...