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Thanks, David Wilson-Okamura Listowner, Mantovano At 09:48 PM 1/31/99 -0500, you wrote: >My opinion is presented in the view that Dido was never in fact Aeneas' wife. You recall that it was Dido, as well as Juno and Venus, who called it a marriage, and Aeneas never in fact considered it a marriage. Perhaps Dido was well-suited for Aeneas in a different lifetime, one where he did not have a destiny to go to Italy. Then again, you remember the simile where Aeneas is compared to Apollo-I think that the fact that Dido has previously been compared to Diana could mean that Aeneas and Dido do have a strong connection, since Apollo and Diana are twins, but for that reason, are not meant to be together. I also belive that Creusa, although not much was told about her, did play a big part in the context of Book 2, since she told him that he had to leave Troy. It shows how much Anchises meant to Aeneas since it was not until he had to leave for Anchises that he left, having previously been instructed to leave by Hector, Creusa, and Venus. I'm not sure if any of this makes sense-it's basically just my opinion on the subject. > >Clare > >Attachment Converted: "D:\Email attachments\RE VIRGIL the 3 wives of aene" > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://www.virgil.org/chaucer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaucer: an annotated guide to online resources ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
