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CHS GR Events Series 2016-2017 on YouTube

CHS GR, for the first time after the launch of the Events Series in 2008, shares videos of the Series lectures on YouTube. The 2017 Events Series focused on ‘Societies in Crisis: Economy, Politics, Culture’ with speakers from different academic backgrounds addressing the general topic through their own research.

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Kosmos Society Book Club | Virgil Aeneid Books 9 & 10

While thus in distant region moves the war,
down to bold Turnus Saturn’s daughter sends
celestial Iris. In a sacred vale,
the seat of worship at his grandsire’s tomb,
Pilumnus, Faunus’ son, the hero mused.
And thus the wonder-child of Thaumas called
with lips of rose:

(Aeneid 9.1–7 translated by Theodore C.Williams)

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Kosmos Society Book Club | Virgil Aeneid Books 9 & 10

While thus in distant region moves the war,
down to bold Turnus Saturn’s daughter sends
celestial Iris. In a sacred vale,
the seat of worship at his grandsire’s tomb,
Pilumnus, Faunus’ son, the hero mused.
And thus the wonder-child of Thaumas called
with lips of rose:
(Aeneid 9.1–7 translated by Theodore C.Williams)