CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Punic Wars, Aeneid, Ekphrasis
8 Feb 2018
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Represses emotion, focused on duty not personal relationships (roman) Trojans happy, dido in distress, asks for more time. -symbolic of her retaking control of her life when she chooses to die,, removing herself from situation for city to remain independent. -patterns in myth: ariadne; myth is about making sense of their world. -dido as carthaginian woman, almost a monstrous figure as she curses romans and trojans. -wars with rome and carthage = punic wars. Dido falls on aeneas(cid:859) s(cid:449)ord (cid:894)piles up reli(cid:272)s of relatio(cid:374)ship(cid:895) The release of dido(cid:859)s spirit: a(cid:374) u(cid:374)fated death (cid:894)ha(cid:448)e to ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)all(cid:455) release her fro(cid:373) (cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:272) she (cid:449)as(cid:374)(cid:859)t supposed to die(cid:895) Book 4 = crucial turning point for trojans towards new home. -a break from the past and move to future. Book 5 women are abandoned as men continue to italy. A departure from main narrative, not much actually happens but is crucial (sets action of.
