Tainted by Deception: Reading Virgil’s Dido in Light of Ovid’s Dido
Okładka czasopisma Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae, tom 34, nr 2, rok 2024
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Słowa kluczowe

Dido
Aeneas
mission
obedience
love
deception
truth
nightmare
Punicus
Poenus
Carthage

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Wesołowska, E. (2025). Tainted by Deception: Reading Virgil’s Dido in Light of Ovid’s Dido. Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae Et Latinae, 34(2), 55–65. https://doi.org/10.14746/sppgl.2024.XXXIV.2.3

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Liczba pobrań: 49

Abstrakt

The paper aims to reveal some aspects of deception and falsity in Virgil and Ovid’s famous portrayals of an unhappy Dido. Paradoxically, such a view helps us to understand not only the sophisticated game between the younger and older poet, but also the special tension existing in the structure of the image of Dido, Queen of Carthage, deceived or only abandoned by the Roman hero Aeneas.

https://doi.org/10.14746/sppgl.2024.XXXIV.2.3
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