El arte de resistir

The Aeneid is not a poem for times of peace. His verses are not appropriate when everything is going smoothly, they are ideal when we feel the urgency of finding our way towards an after that amazes us for its difference with the before in which we have always lived. To put it in other words: reading the Aeneid is highly recommended in the midst of a hurricane, and if possible without an umbrella. Aeneas is the defeated man, the hero without a homeland to return to. He sets off from the ruins of Troy with his father in tow and in search of a new beginning, armed with his most prized possessions, in a ship without a helmsman in search of a promised land in which to start anew. . In his purest style, Marcolongo shows us in this marvelous essay how Virgil's epic poem resonates in the contemporary world and how its themes and protagonists can continue to move us even today. Of Aeneas we usually remember his flight from Troy or his tragic love story with Dido, but we tend to forget the epic tale of the mythical origins of Rome and her empire. His resilience and the strength of his hope are exemplary and constitute a surprisingly timely lesson.