The Eclogue you are thinking of is four, not
six
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The reason that Virgil was popular in the middle ages was due to a heavy
connection with him as a prophet. This is not due to the Aeneid but instead
due to Book six of the Ecoluges (sorry if that is mispelled) which foretells
the coming of a "golden child." Scholars of the middle ages thought th
I believe the correct spelling is "Eclogues" and "identified."
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>I believe the correct spelling is "Eclogues" and "identified."
And it's Eclogue 4, not 6 -- but I think the rest of Cecilie Gerlach's
information was sound enough.
Simon Cauchi, Hamilton, New Zealand
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A few questions, relating to the recent thread on Virgil and the Fourth
Eclogue:
1. What else, besides the Fourth Eclogue, led medieval readers to view
Virgil as a proto-Christian prophet? How different is the medieval view
from that of, say, the one outlined by Broch in _The Death of Virgil_ (194
You wrote:
>I've been told that the Aeneid, unlike other pieces of classical
>literature, was preserved and popular during the middle ages and that the
>reason for this was that some believed it foretold the coming of Christ.
>But, Aeneas is shown only the future of Rome and great Romans. Clearly
