HUM 2 Lecture 3: 1c: Rome, Carthage & 3 Senses of "Contra:"
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Facing / across from : rome, carthage, and the mediterranean: punic a. i. War between rome and carthage: carthage b. i. An alternative : carthage as an alternative choice for aeneas: a city half built, a woman in soft bed, good place a. i. Very tempting: try to engineer things so aeneas would stay there b. i. She knows aeneas is trying to found the greatest city. If aeneas stayed in carthage, carthage would be the greatest city, and if aeneas went elsewhere, another city would be greater than her carthage: dido already lost her formal kingdom, same did aeneas. c. i. Dido is a female, which makes her very different character comparing to. Able to take a rational path forward, when her emotions come c. ia. Unhappy, ill destinate: aeneas made the wrong choice for this alternative d. i. God mercury comes and tells him this is not what he is supposed to do. Building dido a splendid city (wrong!) d. iii.
