CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Odysseus, Iarbas, Aeneid
21 Nov 2016
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Lecture 18 aeneid 2, 4: p. 28-79. Creusa and dido: creusa tells aeneas to leave, as she understands his duty, dido does not understand aeneas" duty, and she will not be as understanding as. Creusa was when he must leave her to fulfill his duty: dido"s fall causes chaos and the potential destruction for her city, parallel between these two women. Homeric echo: virgil can interweave homer and contemporary roman politics, aeneas here is like odysseus, with a woman interrupting his journey home, homeric allusion: the hero dallying with a woman. The end of dido = the end of carthage: aeneas appears to take control of the city. Deliberates over the problem of how to tell dido how he must leave. We infer that aeneas faces war better than relationships. Dido loses control, confronts aeneas when he decides to leave her.
