
The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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Pindar's Orphism
All three works take as one of the core themes of it this idea of memory. In Virgil's Aeneid, you have this invocation of the muse. And of course, the muses are all nine daughters of what got us? Pneumatic. The goddess of memory, right? So this connection here between memory and imagination is explicit in their beliefs.
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