The City of God and the Humbling of Virgil

The Aeneid is permeated by images of raging fire, fury, storms, and chaos. The whole epic poem foregrounds this anti-element as the unavoidable cost of Roman authority and mission. Indeed, the Roman mission is essentially to overcome chaos, especially in society. Thus Virgil has the shadow of Aeneas’ father say to him (or rather, to […]

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