In 19 BC the Roman poet Virgil suffered heatstroke and died on his journey back to Italy. On his deathbed he thought about the manuscript he had been working on for over ten years an epic poem called the "Aeneid." Unsatisfied with the final edit he asked his friends to burn it. But they refused and soon after Virgil's death Augustus ordered it to be published. Why? Mark Robinson explains.
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