Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Trauma of Troy

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  Pushkin.

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  Wait, you want my version?

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  Yeah, I want your version.

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  Was it a New Year's party?

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  I'm asking my friend, MIT classical literature professor,

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  Stephanie Frampton, to recall some ancient history.

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  I've requested that she tell her version of the story of how we first met many, many years ago.

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  My memory is it was at our friend's house.

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  Off the shelf, you pull the Aeneid, and you're like,

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  when I was in high school, I was really good at Latin.

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  So embarrassing.

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  OK, so it turns out I was a huge nerd in high school.

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  And I was kind of obsessed with all things Latin.

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  I studied that ancient language for three whole years.

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  And as a senior, I spent an entire semester translating an important Latin text,

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  the Aeneid, by the famous Rowan poet Virgil.

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  But I didn't just translate the Aeneid.

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  I got kind of obsessed with it.

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  And being the type A 17-year-old Latin scholar that I was,

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  I for some strange reason decided that there was one and only one proper way to translate the first sentence of the Aeneid,

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