Egeria (mythology) - in Modern Literature

In Modern Literature

  • In Nathaniel Lee's English Restoration tragedy Lucius Junius Brutus (1680), Egeria appears in a vision to Brutus' son Titus.
  • In Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, the priest Chasuble refers to Cecily's tutor Miss Prism as "Egeria."

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