Cards (34)

    • book 1, book 4, book 6
    • has much in common with Aeneas
    • they are both refugees and noble leaders of their people
    • they have both lost their spouse
    • both are manipulated by the gods
    • both are founding cities
    • both are from rich places characterised by gold and rich textiles
    • in similes, they are Apollo and Diana, the divine twins
    • woman and man
    • Carthage and Rome (destined to be enemies)
    • childless and father
    • passionate and resrved
    • wild wind and a solid oak
    • some suggest and allusion to Cleopatra and Antony
    • Dido is a capable leader, who leads the foundations for her new city in bk 1
    • she is also a victim
    • her brother, Pygmalion, murdered her husband, Sychaeus
    • Juno and Venus manipulate her for their own purposes
    • is it because of Cupid's arrow or her own passion for Aeneas?
    • manipulated by her own sister's advice
    • manipulated by Iarbas, potential suitor
    • of Rumour who presents to the world, a sordid affair rather than the marriage Dido believes herself to have entered into
    • Aeneas leaves her
    • the foundation of the Roman race
    • Fate gives her no part
    • she fits the model of a heroine from a Greek tragedy: she is a good woman who makes a wrong decision, after which, she is condemned
    • she prays to the gods for their approval
    • she carries on and marries Aeneas, unaware of the consequences of her action
    • she realises that she has been deceived, and sees death as the only way out
    • bk 4 is given over almost entirely to her
    • we wait outside for her to appear for the hunt, as a bride is awaited on her wedding say
    • we listen to her speeches and are aware of her suicide plans when she is deceiving everyone else about what she is doing
    • Octavian, later known as Augustus (63 BC - AD 14)

      After the death of Caesar, Octavian avenged his adopted father's death and eventually, after a struggle with Mark Antony, became the first emperor. When he assumed complete control in 27, he took on the name Augustus
    • Mark Antony (83-30 BC)

      the main adversary of Octavian after Caesar's death. He allied himself with Cleopatra and fought Octavian for the leadership of Rome. He was defeated at the Battle of Actium