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The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Waugh's Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan

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Brideshead Deserted in Lady March, Maine

In the Aeneid and Brideshead or Visited, you have these wonderful interludes where Charles goes home to his father. And if you pay attention, what he does is he studies in Truscan antiquities. All of them find our finders of Rome, right? Of religion or of the actual place. We have other correspondences with the sun,. We have the estranged sun, Ascanius, also called Eulis. The literate, the altars are stripped, everything is laid bare, right?

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