Love and Duty in Virgil’s Aeneid and Augustine’s Confessions

In his confession he said that Augustine was asked to read Virgil 's Agnid during the school year. The changing romance of Aeneas and Dido gave him such an emotional influence. Augustine said that Virgil 's epic he had forgotten his "wandering" (Augustine 1116). He shouted Death 's death, but still shouted the "eyes" of his own poor country (Augustine 1116 - 7). Augustine later refused literature and play. Because they believed that they dispersed the soul and attention of God. Nonetheless, Augustine has about the same experience as the character of Aenned.

Some scholars emphasize St. Augustine 's repentance, especially of his mention, polyphonic features, especially of the Virgil Story of Biblical story and use. If you remember the major geographic movements of St. Augustine, you can see that these movements reflect Aeneas's journey. For example, Augustine comes to Carthage, one of the most famous and central city of the Roman Empire, and continues his research and completes. St. Augustine uses part of the text of Vergilian, rewrites them for old purpose, older traditions, works of a certain theme, including different stories, and for your own purposes. Therefore, Virgil played an important role in Augustine's account.

Virgil Aeneis is a pagan of pagan Rome, but autobiography records of Dante and Saint Augustine also play an important role. Dante Virgil is using Ming Wei Jill as the best human reason and wisdom on the road for his guidance and emphasized the praise from classical ancient Roman poet Dante heart. But to prove and show his religious and strict Christian faith, Dante Virgil placed the first circle of hell Bo, and the past of other kinds of pagan Roman poets. Dante is essential to the arrangement of Virgil and other non - Christians, as their pagan beliefs are never allowed to enter the sky. When he told Roscant VII de Poeter, Saul, the understanding of Virgil himself of Judgment of this God tells: "In addition to the lack of faith I was deprived of the absolute nature of heaven" ( Alighieri et al., 56)