Re: VIRGIL: marriage and the aeneid

[Damien Nelis]

Try 
Francis Cairns
Virgil's Augustan Epic 
Cambridge University Press 1989.

Damien Nelis

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>Subject: VIRGIL: marriage and the aeneid
>Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2002, 6:57 PM
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> i am interested in Vergil's statements about marriage and its
> function in the state.  If a marriage between Dido and Aeneas did,
> in fact,
> take place in the cave, is Vergil's sympathetic treatment of Dido a
> call to
> respect marriage or instead not to enter one unless it serves a
> "fated"
> role - one that serves the society's destiny?  Also, as for marriage
> for
> love (Lavinia and Turnus) as opposed to marriage for state
> (Lavinia and
> Aeneas): Turnus is described as equally honorable, with just
> motivations.
> Is marriage for love acceptable then, as long as it doesn't interfere
> with
> the state's destiny?  Can marriage vows be voilated if their
> transgression
> will serve the state, as with Dido?
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