Ronald Knox s Lectures on Virgil s Aeneid

This book makes available Ronald Knox''s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil''s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knox''s customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to contemporary life, the lectures are devoted to the appreciation of the Aeneid and focus on what he called the ''essential and dominant characteristic...