Worldview Guide for the Aeneid

Canon Classics Worldview Guides

by Louis A. Markos

"For 1500 years, Virgil's Aeneid reigned supreme.... [O]ur ancestors found in the Aeneid a purpose, a pathos, and a profundity that moved them. It was Virgil not in opposition to but alongside the Bible who taught Christian Europe the shape of history, the cost of empire, the primacy of duty, the transience of fame, the inevitability of death, the pain of letting go, and the burden of adapting new strategies." ~ From the Worldview Guide The Worldview Guides from the Canon Classics Literature Series provide an aesthetic and thematic Christian perspective on the most definitive and daunting works of Western Literature. Each Worldview Guide presents the big picture (both the good and the bad) without neglecting the details. Each Worldview Guide is a friendly literary coach -- and a treasure map, and a compass, and a key -- to help teachers, parents, and students appreciate, critique, and begin to master the classics. The bite-size WGs are divided into these ten sections (with some variation due to genre): Introduction, The World Around, About the Author, What Other Notables Said, Setting, Characters, & Plot Summary, Worldview Analysis, Quotables, 21 Significant Questions & Answers, and Further Discussion & Review. A free classics test and answer key are also available online.

56 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2017

About the author

Dr. Markos earned his B.A. in English and History from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan, he specialized in British Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory, and the Classics.

He has taught at Houston Baptist University since 1991, where he is Professor in English and holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities.

Reviews

[Sean Higgins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great introduction to the Aeneid especially if you know nothing about it, written from (and how the epic fits into) a Christian worldview.

[JR Snow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overview, too short to be helpful in a chapter-by-chapter manner. The crossway study guides by Ryken are better and more thorough.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too short! Interestingly, Markos disagrees with Leithart on the killing of Turnus. I find Leithart more convincing.

[Laura Webb · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Louis Markos. After hearing him speak at a conference this summer, I knew this guide would be good. It was.