The Roman Empire will find its destiny rooted in Virgil's epic, The Aeneid. As we explore the poem, Rabbi Rocklin will help us address the following questions: <ol> <li>How is Virgil's storytelling in The Aeneid different than Homer's storytelling in The Iliad and The Odyssey?</li> <li>What was Virgil's goal in telling the story of The Aeneid?</li> <li>Why is Aeneas seen as a more compelling hero than the Homeric heroes?</li> </ol> Recommended Reading: Virgil. <a href= "https://a.co/d/eUYwpTU">The Aeneid</a>. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Classics, 2008.

The Roman Empire will find its destiny rooted in Virgil's epic, The Aeneid. As we explore the poem, Rabbi Rocklin will help us address the following questions: How is Virgil's storytelling in The Aeneid different than Homer's storytelling in The Iliad and The Odyssey? What was Virgil's goal in telling the story of The Aeneid? Why is Aeneas seen as a more compelling hero than the Homeric heroes? Recommended Reading: Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Classics, 2008.

The Roman Empire will find its destiny rooted in Virgil's epic, The Aeneid. As we explore the poem, Rabbi Rocklin will help us address the following questions: <ol> <li>How is Virgil's storytelling in The Aeneid different than Homer's storytelling in The Iliad and The Odyssey?</li> <li>What was Virgil's goal in telling the story of The Aeneid?</li> <li>Why is Aeneas seen as a more compelling hero than the Homeric heroes?</li> </ol> Recommended Reading: Virgil. <a href="https://a.co/d/eUYwpTU" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Aeneid</a>. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Classics, 2008.

The Aeneid I: The New Hero

Welcome to The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind, a podcast that tells the story of the prophets, philosophers, and poets who created the West. 

In this podcast, Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Rocklin guides listeners through more than 3,000 years of Western history, offering a coherent, civilizational story of how the West came to be—along with a deepened understanding of the challenges it now faces. While many of the texts discussed will be familiar to students of the humanities, Rabbi Rocklin offers a new framework for understanding them—a framework in which the teachings of the Jewish religious tradition play a central role. For, as Rabbi Rocklin explains, Western civilization can only be understood as the product of a transformative and ongoing collision between the great traditions of Jerusalem and Athens—between the religious spirit of the Jews and the philosophical spirit of the Greeks.

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Welcome to The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind, a podcast that tells the story of the prophets, philosophers, and poets who created the West. In this podcast, Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Rocklin guides listeners through more than 3,000 years of Western history, offering a coherent, civilizational story of how the West came to be—along with a deepened understanding of the challenges it now faces. While many of the texts discussed will be familiar to students of the humanities, Rabbi Rocklin offers a new framework for understanding them—a framework in which the teachings of the Jewish religious tradition play a central role. For, as Rabbi Rocklin explains, Western civilization can only be understood as the product of a transformative and ongoing collision between the great traditions of Jerusalem and Athens—between the religious spirit of the Jews and the philosophical spirit of the Greeks.

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