In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zara Hayat
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Apart from telling Aeneas his destiny in the form of a ghost (an event
that, together with her death, is crucial to move the story along), is
Creusa an important character?
She is also important as the mother of Iulus/Ascanius, who remembers her
(9. 297); but if you mean is her individual character important, beyond
that of being a loving wife who releases her husband from his grief, and
a loving daughter-in-law who helps persuade Anchises to leave Troy, the
answer appears to be no. Neither is Lavinia of much importance as an
individual human being, rather than a fulfilleress of function
(gender-suffix deliberate, as indicating a role women are liable to be
assigned); the one was, and the other will be, a Good Wife. Contrast
Dido.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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