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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Before, within my poem, I led the Greeks onto the streams of Phoebes, I was baptized. But out of fear, I was a secret..."
In the quoted scene, Statius says he was secretly baptized, lived outwardly as a pagan for fear, and spent more than four centuries circling purgatory before asking after the classical poets in limbo.
"Before, within my poem, I led the Greeks onto the streams of Phoebes, I was baptized. But out of fear, I was a secret..."
"...thousands of years in Western history is through the memorization of classical poets."
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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