Isn't this just the tired old T. S. Eliot/Warde Fowler school of the Judeo-Christian Aeneas?
It's much older than that. Augustine read from the Aenied every morning and The City of God shares the same Providential look at Rome as Haecker does.
I am aware that this is not a currently fashionable view. Haecker was a Catholic theologian and I agree with him that to best understand how a great Roman poet viewed Rome, one should have an idea of the view of the world from that essentially Roman institution which survives to our day, Catholicism. As Augustine pointed out, the virtues which made Rome great are Catholic.
As for T.S. Eliot/Warde Fowler, I agree that they're old and tired!
Brian
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"Founder of the faith"? Which faith? Certainly not Aeneas's faith.
Isn't this just the tired old T. S. Eliot/Warde Fowler school of the Judeo-Christian Aeneas?
Shawn Smith
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Quoting "Robert T. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
BG scripsit:I suggest Theodore Haecker's "Virgil: Father of the West". There's a good
chapter there about how Aeneas and Odysseus are quite dissimilar figures.
Also (the best part) explains (in ecstasy almost) how Aeneas is in fact most
similar to Abraham, the founder of the faith.
It's a 1934 book...you'll have to find a used copy, try Alibris.com
Thanx! But 1934??? Wow...........
Bob White
Robert T. White Shaker Heights HS Shaker Heights OH
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