Virgil
208Cynic, Epic, Stoic, Skeptic
21 Oct 2024
38:52¶ 92
“Virgil comes along and writes the Aeneid as one grand celebration of Rome’s great role in universal salvation or redemption. When Augustus took the…”
39:43¶ 94
“Virgil had made some prophecies written not too far in advance of this universal savior who would come and change the world, and when…”
40:08¶ 95
“People looked at Jesus as, “Oh! That’s what Virgil was really getting at, so rather than spelling his name V-e-r-g we will spell it…”
204The Founding of Rome
26 Aug 2024
4:26¶ 17
“He is known as Pious Aeneas in Virgil’s Aeneid, indicating that he is held in great reverence by all the Romans who followed. My…”
3:55¶ 16
“Aeneas is a refugee from Troy essentially. The legend as Virgil tells it many centuries later is that Aeneas escaped from the ruins of…”
39:50¶ 118
“But thou, O Roman, learn with sovereign sway To rule the nations. Thy great art shall be To keep the world in lasting peace,…”