My opinion is presented in the view that Dido was never in fact Aeneas' wife.
You recall that it was Dido, as well as Juno and Venus, who called it a
marriage, and Aeneas never in fact considered it a marriage. Perhaps Dido was
well-suited for Aeneas in a different lifetime, one where he did n
my question concerns the 3 wives of Aeneas in the Aeneid. Creusa, as
well as Lavinia, remain basically passive in the poem: we really don't
learn anything about either of them. On the other hand, Dido is a
powerful woman, with extreme influence on Aeneas. My question is,
what qualities do you th
Thank you Don Fowler for the lead.
My current interest in the Appendix Vergiliana arises from a note of mine to
be published soon in ERANOS, "[Ps.-Virg.] Copa 3" where I conjecture adverbial
formose for the vulgate fumosa/famosa (formose saltat would have a parallel in
Propertius Bk 2 - the exact
From: Don Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:05:18 + (GMT)
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is anyone carrying out any serious work on the COPA, or indeed any of the
> Appendix Vergiliana? (Recent entries in Annee Philologique and the cyber
> classics bibilograp
