Beauty as a Dove and Olive Branch
An ancient symbol that’s close to my heart
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5 min readNov 5, 2021
A dark blue banner the color of the deep sea hangs in my room with a white dove holding an olive branch between its beak. Underneath the dove and olive branch are the words BE COOL.
In the Roman poet Virgil’s epic, The Aeneid, the main character Aeneas uses the olive branch as a symbol of peace:
