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rulers
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Across centuries, rulers who built their power on fear or oppression seemed immovable in their day.—
John Hope Bryant,
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6 Sep. 2025 -
Writers and rulers across Europe and the Americas have looked back to Virgil’s epic as a model for their own founding myths, in the construction of new nations, new colonies, new empires.—
Literary Hub,
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3 Sep. 2025
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