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

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This talk was given on April 27th, 2023 at Georgetown University. The slides for the lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yus8cvkx For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as well as Assistant Professor of English & Humanities at St. Gregory the Great Seminary. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classical Philology. While his doctoral work focused on ancient Greek commentaries to the lyric poet Pindar, his recent work focuses on early Jesuit Latin texts.

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0:28.5	Um, the issue of the literary influence of Virgil and St.
0:34.5	Augustine on Evelyn Wall's Bridesheader visited is something that, um, kind of struck me both as a Catholic and a classicist, and it's something that, you know,
0:43.8	as we're discussing it, the paper that I have goes much deeper. And the first thing I want to kind
0:49.6	of check in the room here is how many people have actually read Brideshead revisited?
0:56.1	Got a fair number of hands.
0:58.3	Okay, this is good.
0:59.1	So you guys are going to fact check me.
1:00.5	It's good.
1:01.5	And then how many people have read Virgil's and Nied?
1:07.4	Similarly impressive number of hands.
1:09.5	I think we can go a little deeper.
1:10.8	This is awesome.
1:12.2	And how many people have, again, full honesty here.
1:17.2	I will literally check your, is it Goodreads, whatever it is, or you track your thing?
1:22.7	I'll hunt you down.
1:24.2	How many people have read St. Augustine's confessions?
1:30.3	A little bit. Okay, thank you. That's five points to Gryffindor for honesty there. Well, confessions is going to be what's
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