Dido, Anna and the sirens (Vergil Aeneid 4.437 ss.)
2009; Fabrizio Serra Editore; Issue: 62 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1724-1693
Autores Tópico(s)Classical Antiquity Studies
ResumoI begin with a brief review of the narrative context for this allusion. Aeneid 4 teils the story of the doomed love-affair between Aeneas and his hostess Dido, the queen of Carthage. We shall pick up the story at the point (4.219 ss.) when this affair has come to the attention of Jupiter, who sends Mercury to Carthage with Orders for Aeneas to leave. Aeneas is stunned, and obeys the instruction (279-295). When Dido realizes that Aeneas is preparing to leave her (296 ss.), she begs him to stay (305 ss., esp. 314-319). Aeneas insists that he must leave (333-361); Dido is incensed (364), and bitterly criticizes his behaviour, voicing her hope that he will suffer for this (365-387). At this point she breaks off and rushes away, only to collapse (388-392). Aeneas is greatly shaken, and wishes to comfort her but he carries out the Orders of the gods and returns to his men (393-396). Preparations are made for departure (394-407). Dido still loves Aeneas (412), and ire Herum in laarimas, Herum temptare grecando I cogitur et supplex animos summittere amon, I ne quid inexpertum frustra montura relinquat (413-415). She turns to her sister Anna for help (416-436), begging her to go to Aeneas and ask him to stay if
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