Eriugena and Virgil
Paul Edward Dutton
Virgil was one of Eriugena’s companion authors, but the Irishman’s attitude toward and use Poet complex varied. As a teacher liberal arts, Eriugena mined for information on mythology, ancient geography, grammar. poet, he adopted many Virgilian phrases poetic patterns. philosopher, cited as coiner sublime descriptions early cosmos. But Christian, rejected fictions peddled truths by epic poets Homer Virgil. “Eriugena Virgil” surveys extant evidence knowledge supplies, in an appendix, all identified citations uses Eriugena. The study explores reasons guardedness employing Virgil, argues that we need to approach piece work work. at once aware how deeply indebted dangerous entrancing could be. And so tried keep his distance, when could, from Poet.
Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia