"Aeneas’s show of 'pietas' is not a new development but a virtue stemming from Homer and his heroes"

"Achilleus is no Christfigure, to be certain, but his suffering, which leads to eventual mercy, points to a change in character"

The Protestant Revolution was prefigured by several figures that influenced the thoughts of Luther and Calvin. These figures from the 1300 and 1400s challenged the via antigua, not necessarily in as direct of an assault as of the Protestant revolutionaries but effective in opening up discussion about long held truths. The lecture points to three important thinkers that define the changing revolutions of each century up till the present day; Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockh