Epic Philosophy: What Did Virgil Believe? A Lecture by Dr David Butterfield

There was no greater poet in the Roman world than Virgil, and for many readers there has been no more beautiful work of verbal art than his epic, the “Aeneid”. It not only shaped the next half-millennium of Latin literature but guided the western literary tradition through the Middle Ages. Yet what did its author actually believe about the world? What philosophy inspired his art? This lecture, which will be open and accessible to all comers, will piece together this great poet’s intellectual journey. Dr David Butterfield recently joined Ralston College from The University of Cambridge.