Virgil’s Visions of Sin
(2019) Dynamics of Religious Interaction — Location: CRASSH, Cambridge
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- This paper argues that Virgil and Horace, building on a vast body of archaic, classical, and Hellenistic literature in Greek, developed a notion of Roman ancestral fault that could be expanded into a global, even cosmic, notion. Although this idea did not directly enter Roman cult in the age of Augustus, it was taken up in late antiquity by Saint Augustine, who used the terms of Virgil and Horace in order to construct the idea of Rome's sin, as well as the idea of universal original sin.
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Trinity Cambridge
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Kachuck, A. (2019). Virgil’s Visions of Sin. Dynamics of Religious Interaction, CRASSH, Cambridge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/101030