Was Virgil Divinely Inspired? | Episode XXXIII

Send us Fan MailThe late antique and medieval Church saw Virgil as a pagan herald of Christ, due to the seemign messianic prophecies in Eclogue IV. In a 1953 essay titled "Vergil and the Christian World," T.S. Eliot argues that the Christian sympathies in Virgil's poetry go even deeper than that single poem, and in fact suffuse the entire Virgilian corpus.T.S. Eliot's Vergil and the Christian World: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27538181Vergil's Eclogue 4 (Latin): https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/vergil/ec4.shtmlVergil's Eclogue 4 (English): http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/eclogue.4.iv.htmlVirgil's Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid (Latin-English): https://amzn.to/3VlnUqrFustel de Coulanges's La Cité Antique (French): https://amzn.to/3yzATuZFustel de Coulanges's The Ancient City (English): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780648690542Alan Jacobs's The Year of Our Lord 1943: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780190864651T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: https://poets.org/poem/waste-landPlutarch's On the Obsolescence of Oracles: https://amzn.to/3RVk4kWNew Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comSupport the show