That is a rather hard question to answer there are many ways to answer that
question. I am doing a similiar essay that has to do with how Dido portrays
characters in the the Odyessey. I tryed to link them together by using
Kalypso and Penelope. She expresses her feelings as Penelope did
Also
Aeneas trys to put it gently to Dido why he is leaving , Odysseus does
the
same as well to Kalyso and Kalypso pleads for him to stay just as Dido
does
to Aneas.
Ahem, um, no. Aeneas tries to leave without telling Dido! And when she
forces him into confrontation, he can hardly bear to look
Also Apollonius Rhodius' Medea for his portrait of Dido.
yn
I am rather curious of his alluding to the homeric poems with his
characterization of women. He seems to use Kalypso and Penelope a lot in
his poems. If anyone has any thoughts on this let me know
jennifer
Yvan Nadeau
Dear Judy,
this is probably totally daft and will earn you a bad mark from your
teachers, who are, one may assume, very traditional and stick-in-the-
mud in their attitudes (stick-in-the-mud is a virtue, by the way),
but I would have thought a good place to start would be the
description of
Does anyone know the original Latin for the phrase, Commodity, Order,
Delight or something like that? I believe it's a quote from Vetruvius,
whoever that is (I couldn't find him in any Roman history books). Any
information on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
Tom Siegel
From:
It might be helpful, before turning to the Aeneid, to consider the
earlier poems. Eclogue VIII (following Theocritus Id. 2) where women
are attributed some kind of magical power, is an important starting point.
It is perhaps significant that the witch draws her lover Daphnis 'ab
urbe', from the
Judy,
I hate being the bitch of the discussion list, but the point of an essay
assignment is to teach the student to go to the library and find the
relevant literature herself.
Similar requests have been appearing on other discussion lists as well,
most of which have adopted the policy of
I hate being a bitch either,
but there are many people around here
that live in countries
where it is not possible to do proper reasearch
unless they travel many-many miles!
For those that work on Dido:
maybe I am carrying coals to Newcastle
but do you know of
Paola Bono-M. Vittoria Tessitore,
Il
Dido is also a Circe-figure. Structurally, Aeneas' shipwreck and eventual
arrival at Dido's city are parallel to Odysseus' shipwreck and eventual
arrival at Circe's palace, the help that Venus gives to protect him is
parallel to Hermes and the moly, and, like Circe, Dido is a figure
capable
A 1998 study from a European press is certainly not coals to Newcastle
for Americans. Even for specialists, it takes time for the word to get
out and for copies of such books to reach our shores. I would be
interested in hearing more about the contents of this book before I make a
special effort
of course no discussion about the treatment of women in the Aeneid would
be complete without perhaps the most un-P.C. line of the epic: (which,
coincidentally, is a line within a section taken out by the College Board
on the AP reading list this year) (Mercury to Aeneas)
varium et mutabile
There is surely some irony here: the apparition (is it really Mercury?)
makes the famous remark about the untrustworthiness of women in order to
persuade Aeneas to disregard the trust which a woman had placed in him.
The passage may be more PC than it looks! I'd like to echo David's
disagreement
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:30:33 EST
I am about to teach a college level course on the Aeneid books 1-6 and I was
wondering if you have any suggestions about how to do this in an interesting
manner. I do not want to bore them with lecture, but I would like to
incorporate
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