The Virgilian Triad: Heroic, Lyric, Georgic—the Centrality of the Ideas of War, Labor, and Meditation in Western Culture.

Here I ask the question whether the heroic, the practical, and the private (meditation/love etc.) are the three fundamental elements of Western culture, as they were at one time the divisions of Western literature.  I hope to define and contrast each of these primary categories for the contemporary listener.