Stephen Greenblatt: The Poem That Dragged Us Out of the Dark Ages

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  • 6 years ago
Particle physics. Human self-determination. Evolution. According to Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt, we owe these modern ideas to an ancient Roman poem, rediscovered in 1417.

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