tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post5720186656704723556..comments2024-03-28T07:57:49.338+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Reflections IIKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-16397165665167007102023-04-20T08:30:39.389+01:002023-04-20T08:30:39.389+01:00Kaor, Jim!
My point being that these Catholic Chr...Kaor, Jim!<br /><br />My point being that these Catholic Christians had no problems making cultural use of their pre-Christian heritage.<br /><br />Ad astra! SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-49696940378051910372023-04-19T18:54:20.540+01:002023-04-19T18:54:20.540+01:00Holding pagan attitudes, and belief in pagan gods,...Holding pagan attitudes, and belief in pagan gods, aren't quite the same thing.<br />The writer of the 'O Fortuna' poem may have held some rather non-Christian attitudes without believing in a literal goddess Fortuna.Jim Baerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182949391365921637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-39706086846437640092023-04-19T07:57:54.842+01:002023-04-19T07:57:54.842+01:00Kaor, Jim!
More likely, it was Christians making ...Kaor, Jim!<br /><br />More likely, it was Christians making use of a part of their Classical heritage. Dante, for example, was a big fan of Virgi's poem THE AENEID, without believing one bit in the pagan gods.<br /><br />There's also Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius' THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY, where we see a lot about Fortune. Another Christian who had no trouble making use of his pagan heritage.<br /><br />Ad astra! SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-84321057187226048382023-04-18T18:41:21.313+01:002023-04-18T18:41:21.313+01:00Fotruna:
Which reminds me of the 'O Fortuna...Fotruna:<br />Which reminds me of the 'O Fortuna' section of Carmina Burana.<br />The words were written roughly 1200 IINM, though the music we are most familiar with is 20th century.<br />The Carmina Burana poems show an interesting survival or revival or pagan attitude after centuries of Christianity. Jim Baerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182949391365921637noreply@blogger.com