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

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The Homeric Question

Virgil is an echoing back to the first lines of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, right? And what we have in Virgil is this echoing of Ilial and the Odyssey. So those of you who are Latin students, the famous first opening words to Virgil's and need, Armoue-Roumque-Kano: "I sing of arms in a minute"

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