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Statius's metaphor for Virgil as a guide whose light teaches followers while failing to illuminate the guide's own salvation.
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lamp behind him
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...did as he who goes by night and carries the lamp behind him. He is of no help to his own self, but teaches..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...did as he who goes by night and carries the lamp behind him. He is of no help to his own self, but teaches..."
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Statius answers Virgil's conversion question by calling him the lamp behind the traveler: Virgil helped others see what he could not use to save himself, and through Virgil Statius became both poet and Christian.
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"...did as he who goes by night and carries the lamp behind him. He is of no help to his own self, but teaches..."
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"...did as he who goes by night and carries the lamp behind him he's of no help to his own self but teaches those..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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