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"The Empire‐Skeptic and History Class"

Your Aeneas builds an empire
on exile and sorrow—what of the cities
he conquers, the peoples displaced?

Transformation has a cost.
By glorifying his ‘spark,’
we risk overlooking the suffering
ignited in his wake.
to be taken with a grain of salt and if not possible be a duck as the water cascades of its back...
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     guy scutellaro and Thomas W Case
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