The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... simply to get to Italy , where he is to set in motion those events that will later be called Roman history . The desire to escape history , to refuse an authentic temporal destiny , can be found at every level of the Aeneid and ...
... simply to get to Italy , where he is to set in motion those events that will later be called Roman history . The desire to escape history , to refuse an authentic temporal destiny , can be found at every level of the Aeneid and ...
Page 75
... simply as a series of examples of sin or saintliness , mere points in an abstract moral schema , but rather as the results of a process , the artifacts of the various ways in which they have lived their lives in time . In the results ...
... simply as a series of examples of sin or saintliness , mere points in an abstract moral schema , but rather as the results of a process , the artifacts of the various ways in which they have lived their lives in time . In the results ...
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... simply the symbolic keys that Christ bestows upon Peter in Matthew's gospel , they are clearly ceremonial in their nature , the outward and visible sign of an invisible , essen- tially spiritual reality , the inward meaning of ...
... simply the symbolic keys that Christ bestows upon Peter in Matthew's gospel , they are clearly ceremonial in their nature , the outward and visible sign of an invisible , essen- tially spiritual reality , the inward meaning of ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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