CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Punic Wars, Ekphrasis, Proserpina
31 Aug 2016
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Trojans, dido in distress, asks for more time. Dido"s death: symbolic of her retaking control of her life, patterns in myth: ariadne, dido as carthaginian woman, wars with rome and carthage = punic wars. Interconnectivity of these characters, myths helped to make sense of the world and n the historical level you see the carthaginian and the real war between romans, which was very fundamental. Which helped shaping the sense of identity of rome. Dido falls on aeneas" word, after tricking her sister and nurse to leaving her alone. The release of dido"s spirit; an un fated death. Book 4= crucial turning point for trojans towards new home: a break from the past and move to the future. Book 5 = men are going and women left behind, so they can elop with the. Bracketed by the gates of the temple of apollp at cumae and the gates of sleep. Sets aeneas firmly in the history of rome.
