Epic Philosophy: What Did Virgil Believe? A Lecture by Dr David Butterfield

Epic Philosophy: What Did Virgil Believe? A Lecture by Dr David Butterfield in Savannah on Thursday, December 5, 2024
Epic Philosophy: What Did Virgil Believe? A Lecture by Dr David Butterfield in Savannah on Thursday, December 5, 2024
Thursday, December 5, 2024, 1700 - 1900
There was no greater poet in the Roman world than Virgil, and for many readers there has been no more beautiful work of verbal art than his epic, the “Aeneid”. It not only shaped the next half-millennium of Latin literature but guided the western literary tradition through the Middle Ages. This poem not only shaped the next half-millennium of Latin literature but guided the western literary tradition through the Middle Ages. Yet what did its author actually believe about the world? What philosophy inspired his art? Dr David Butterfield recently joined Ralston College from The University of Cambridge.

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Cranmer Hall
27 West Charlton Street
Savannah Georgia 31401
United States
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Katie Rook
ralstoncollege@ralston.ac
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