Worldview Guide for The Aeneid (Canon Classics Literature)

[O]ur ancestors found in the Aeneid a purpose a pathos and a profundity that moved them. It was Virgil-not in opposition to but alongside the Bible-who taught Christian Europe the shape of history the cost of empire the primacy of duty the transience of fame the inevitability of death the pain of letting go and the burden of adapting new strategies. -From Markoss guideThe Worldview Guides from the Canon Classics Literature Series provide an aesthetic and thematic Christian perspective on the most definitive and daunting works of Western Literature. Each Worldview Guide presents the big picture (both the good and the bad) without neglecting the details. Each Worldview Guide is a friendly literary coach - and a treasure map and a compass and a key - to help teachers parents and students appreciate critique and begin to master the classics.The bite-size WGs are divided into these ten sections (with some variation due to genre): Introduction The World Around About the Author What Other Notables Said Setting Characters & Argument Worldview Analysis Quotables 21 Significant Questions & Answers and Further Discussion & Review.