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From: ddavis-henry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:08:52 -0500
Creusa's separation from her family towards the end of book II is tough for
me to accept and to teach. I readily understand why her elimination from
the storyline is
I think the key part here is Creusa's comment- Who was once called your
wife... Remember that this passage comes after Venus has revealed the
destruction of the city to Aeneas (it is not the greeks doing it, but the
gods). It seems to me it is at this point that fate takes over Aeneas' life:
At 12:25 PM 1/13/00 -0500, Christine Perkell wrote:
Since Aeneas is carrying his father, who in turn holds the household
gods, and is holding his son by the hand, you can hardly argue that
Aeneas entrusts Creusa with everything important to him! Quite the
opposite! He is in physical contact
1.
We may choose between various vantage points: do we want to read Aeneas'
words on Creusa's disappearance as modern readers? Or as Romans? Or as
Dido and the Carthaginians (to whom these words are directed)? Or some
combination of all this? It is important, I believe, to define where we
want to
