In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>For those that work on Dido:
>maybe I am "carrying coals to Newcastle"
>but do you know of
>Paola Bono-M. Vittoria Tessitore,
>"Il mito di Didone,
>Avventure di una regina tra secoli e culture"
>(Milano, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1998)?
>It is an excellent study of the myth
See too Michael Burden (ed.), _A Woman Scorn'd: Responses to the Dido
Myth_ (London, Faber and Faber, 1998), which includes chapters on
Marlowe, Cavalli, and Purcell; it also cites the following works for
their bibliographies:
Marrilyn Desmond, _Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality and the Medieval
Aeneid_ (Minneapolis, 1994)
Rene' Martin (ed.), _E'ne'e et Didon: naissance, fonctionnement et
survie d'un mythe_ (Paris, 1990).
Adrianne Roberts-Baytop, _Dido, Queen of Infinite Variety_ (Elizabethan
and Renaissance Studies, 25; Salzburg, 1974).
Werner Suerbaum in _Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt_ II 31,1.
Obviously much of this material concerns what subsequent writers,
artists, and musicians made of Dido; one might add Allen B. Skei,
'"Dulces exuviae": Renaissance Settings of Dido's Last Words', _The
Music Review_. 39 (1976), 77-91, and OUP is due to publish a study by
Craig Kallendorf on Vergilian commentaries from Renaissance Venice.
Overall, it seems clear that however pro-Dido, pro-Aeneas, or nuanced
and balanced you may be, someone else has got there before you.
But while I have some problems with treating literary characters as real
people, perhaps the following thread might be worth pursuing. At 4.
531-2 we read that fierce love returns to Dido amidst her wrath:
ingeminant curae rursusque resurgens
saevit amor magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu.
But does anything come of it? In Ovid on her own admission, in Silius
Italicus by her sister's report, and in the last stanza of her lament in
the _Carmina Burana_ (duly cited by Roger Savage in Burden (ed.)
17-18_), Dido still loves Aeneas after his desertion; would it be more
of an over-simplification to say that she does in Vergil too, or that he
does not? (I am inverting the question that Ateius Philologus asked,
presumably with reference to Naevius rather than Vergil, 'an amaverit
Didun Aeneas'.)
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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