Virgil’s ‘New’ Kind of Hero

What Makes a Good Man?

Dear Classical Wisdom Society Member,

Everybody has a different idea of what it means to be a hero. Some people think soldiers, other people think single moms, and still others find some further examples in between… or totally different!

Virgil had his own ideas about heroism, and part of his goal in writing his magnum opus, the Aeneid, was to give the le…