salvete collagae,
Ecloga IV in the Bucolica of course is the great poem, that showes Maro as a
prophet in medieval Christian view (since late antiquity, specially since
Constantin).
But also in Aeneis VI three points connnect Christianism with the imperium-idea
of pater Anchises:
1. The
I now agree that the Aeneid wasn't favored over other epics during the
Middle Ages due to any reflections on the morality of force that seem
apparent in it today. In fact, even the most devout early Christians, I
believe , would not make the ana lysis of the Aeneid that some do today.
Citing
Speculations on an hiden meaning of the Eglogues are
coming back to Saint Hieronimus and the first
christians, as Lactantius, Augustinus, or
Constantinus, and they are thinking of Virgil as a
poet who was inspired by the Holy Spirit. All of them
are reading the fourth Eglogue as a pagan prophecy
what are some examples of metonomy early on in the aeniad. i'm having trouble
picking them out
thanks
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