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3.3. the social, cultural and religious context
the part played by women and their position in society
women and marriage
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Lavinia is destined to marry
Aeneas
one
blush
is as far as she gets in
expressing
herself
she doesn't have to make any
moral decisions
- father's problem
as a young
girl
, she is not subject to the
over-emotional outbursts
of her mother
it is almost as though she doesn't
exist
, except as an object to be
fought over
Romans
were used to arrange marriages, and would not have found her
silent acquiescence
as unsettling as the modern reader would