Day 4,229: Push

Today I learned that the roman poet Virgil is most famous for the Aeneid which is an epic poem ostensibly about the founding of Rome, notable for the fact that it doesn’t include the characters/persons of Romulus or Remus. There were many different foundation stories about Rome, and the Aeneid is one of them. It has the distinction of connecting Rome with a direct line to Greek culture and mythology — the central character fought at Troy with Achilles and Odysseus, is kicked out of Greece upon r...