World War I

The Old Lie, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (Horace, Odes,  III):  more than two thousand years later, the line was resumed by Wilfred Owen as a polemical and bitter seal for one of his poems, written between 1917 and 1918, a sharp accusation against the atrocities of war, which is often mystified by… Continue reading The old lie: I Classici e la Grande Guerra/Classics and the Great War