29/04/2012

æthera donet

« Suppose Vergil's heart was divided. Suppose he read and reread his Lucretius as a religious atheist might peruse his Saint Paul –desperate, faithful in his disbelief, hoping, at some moment, for the illumination . . . 

. . . his desire to believe in cosmic order, and, failing a strong faith in human nature, his reverence for human dignity. »

W. R. Johnson. Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid. University of California Press: 1976.

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