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The Ancient Roman Code of Manliness and Virtue

How Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’ captured the Roman code of manhood—pietas, gravitas, and virtus—virtues that shaped Rome and later inspired America’s Founders.
The Ancient Roman Code of Manliness and Virtue
"Horace, Virgil and Varius at the house of Maecenas," by Charles Jalabert, 19th century. Public domain
Jeff Minick
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The Greeks have breached the walls of Troy.

They’ve slipped from the belly of the wooden horse, flung open the gates to their waiting comrades, and torn the Trojans from sleep into a nightmare of killing, rape, and plunder. The decade-long war is ending in slaughter, terror, and flames.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.