The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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The Relationship Between St. Augustine's Confessions and the Aeneid
St. Augustine's Confessions has been read structurally as sort of corresponding to Aeneid in the Odyssey, that is books one through six and seven through twelve. Other thematic ways of reading it are Aeneid's and Africa,. The struggles with his own people in books five through eight. And so you have this tripartite structure. What's really interesting is that if you look at the history of the text that Brides had revisited, Wall himself is playing with this.
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