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The Cross of Aeneas: Virgil’s Aeneid as a Christian Epic
The Cross of Aeneas: Virgil’s Aeneid as a Christian Epic

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It is not uncommon knowledge that the great Christian thinker C.S. Lewis owed a great debt to the ancient Roman poet Virgil, whose long poem the Aeneid Lewis considered a “Christian epic.” Indeed, the Aeneid played an important role in . . .

It is not uncommon knowledge that the great Christian thinker C.S. Lewis owed a great debt to the ancient Roman poet Virgil, whose long poem the Aeneid Lewis considered a “Christian epic.” Indeed, the Aeneid played an important role in Lewis’ conversion to Christianity. Although Lewis is one of the more well-known modern Christian writers…

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