the end of the Roman Republic uniting Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey the Great between 60<hr>
and 53 BC.<hr>
        Dido, Elyssa, Elissa, Elisha, Elysha or Helissa, is a Phoenician princess, of the Libyan<hr>
people, the legendary founder and first queen of Carthage. The myth of Dido was taken up by Virgil in his work The Aeneid.<hr>
        The Scamander is a coastal river of ancient Troad and the current province of<hr>
Çanakkale, in Turkey. In Greek mythology, the Scamander is personified in the form of a river god whom the gods call Xanthus.<hr>
        The name Parnassus is originally that of a mountain range in Greece. In Greek mythology, this massif, like Delphi, is dedicated to Apollo, god of the arts, music, and poetry, and is considered the mountain of the Muses, the sacred place of poets. Over time, Parnassus, as a symbolic place occupied by the poets, came to be synonymous with all poets, and then with poetry itself.<hr>
        Epic poems are poems narrating heroic adventures.<hr>
        Elegies are short lyric poems on a subject often tender and sad.<hr>
        Odes are lyric poems intended to be accompanied by music.<hr>
        Satires are writings, words or works through which one mocks or criticizes someone or something sharply.<hr>
        Originally, an epigram was an inscription, first in prose, then in verse, that was engraved on monuments, statues, tombs, and trophies, to perpetuate the memory of a hero or an event.<hr>
        Tragedy is a theatrical genre that traces its origin back to ancient Greek theatre.<hr>
        Agamemnon is a Greek hero and a king of Mycenae, a Greek city north of the plains of Argos. He assumed command of the Achaean army during the Trojan War.<hr>
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                    Seventeenth Discourse - Cloelia to Porsenna<hr>
                                     Cloelia, Roman Daughter<hr>
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        When the Romans concluded peace with Porsenna, they sent their daughters as hostages to guarantee the agreement. However, one of them, named Cloelia, thinking that their modesty was not safe among so many soldiers, encouraged her companions to preserve their life rather than their honor. They all agreed and, with incredible audacity, they decided to swim across the Tiber. Their initiative was successful, and they all safely arrived in Rome under the leadership of Cloelia. Their parents admired this remarkable audacity. Nevertheless, because of Roman strictness, they did not<hr>
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