Fiorella Files- Eagleton, Virgil and Nicholls
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Virgil's Aeneid This is a book about Virgil's Aeneid, especially the second half […]
