Biblonia

Biblonia

Between originality and derivation

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Dr Cristian Ispir
Apr 04, 2025
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Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? | The New Yorker

Imagine Virgil - the Roman poet, not your neighbour - leaning over his (wax) tablet and asking ChatGPT to write an epic poem in the style of Homer:

Scribe carmen in hexametris in stilo Homeri poetae Graeci de itinere Aeneae, Troiani superstitis, qui vaticinium sequitur ut novam urbem in Latio condat quae Roma futura erit, sed non antequam indigenas vinci…

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