Cards (6)

  • 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