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... Dido . But the storm in Naevius may have come in a different part of the story . There were other legends of Dido . Servius says that her name meant " brave maiden " in Phoenician , and was given to her after her death . Her other name ...
... Dido . But the storm in Naevius may have come in a different part of the story . There were other legends of Dido . Servius says that her name meant " brave maiden " in Phoenician , and was given to her after her death . Her other name ...
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... Dido's love . Most significantly , he detaches it , to be applied , altered , to Aeneas in the eighth book , where he worries , sleepless , as Dido had worried sleepless through him . So Dido for a time is this Medea ; but only for a ...
... Dido's love . Most significantly , he detaches it , to be applied , altered , to Aeneas in the eighth book , where he worries , sleepless , as Dido had worried sleepless through him . So Dido for a time is this Medea ; but only for a ...
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... Dido seems to be outside the tradition of dramatic poetry . It is in a cave , amid storm and lightning . It is really the old mythic marriage between earth and sky , that makes the fields flower again and the world go on . Lingering yet ...
... Dido seems to be outside the tradition of dramatic poetry . It is in a cave , amid storm and lightning . It is really the old mythic marriage between earth and sky , that makes the fields flower again and the world go on . Lingering yet ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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