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The reason that Virgil was popular in the middle ages was due to a heavy
connection with him as a prophet. This is not due to the Aeneid but instead
due to Book six of the Ecoluges (sorry if that is mispelled) which foretells
the coming of a golden child. Scholars of the middle ages thought
I believe the correct spelling is Eclogues and identified.
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I believe the correct spelling is Eclogues and identified.
And it's Eclogue 4, not 6 -- but I think the rest of Cecilie Gerlach's
information was sound enough.
Simon Cauchi, Hamilton, New Zealand
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A few questions, relating to the recent thread on Virgil and the Fourth
Eclogue:
1. What else, besides the Fourth Eclogue, led medieval readers to view
Virgil as a proto-Christian prophet? How different is the medieval view
from that of, say, the one outlined by Broch in _The Death of Virgil_
