> 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 at her. He is completely tactless; he tells her that even if he had free will he would not stay with her but would have prefered to have stayed in Troy and rebuilt the city. All in all, Aeneas is presented as a complete failure with women. He loses his first wife Creusa through sheer carelessness and lack of thought, and he doesn't even consider the potential consequences of his actions for Dido and is a direct cause of her death. We never see him as being close or intimate with a woman; through the whole of book 4 we see events from Dido's perspective, indicating that Aeneas is not anywhere near as emotionally involved as she is. The distance between Aeneas and Creusa emotionally is reflected in the distance that Aeneas physically enforces between them in their journey out of Troy. And as for Lavinia, we never even see her physically close to Aeneas, yet alone emotionally - in the poem they never even meet!!! Just my thoughts. Caro ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
