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Dido at the Extremes: Vergil's Tragic Heroine as Victim of and Terror to Rome

In the learning of Vergil`s The Aeneid, Dido is a bit of a divisive character.Scholars are all over the map in their interpretations of this first king of Carthage, a woman whose intimate relationship with the Trojan hero Aeneas delays, for a good year, his travel to Italy and the inevitable introduction of Rome.

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From The Guardian January 1 2011

Charlotte Higgins on what the Greeks and Romans did and didn`t do for us

When Natalie Haynes was a teenager, her mind was turned. She take the 2nd volume of Virgil`s Aeneid, the Roman poet`s astonishing story of the declension of Troy. Instead of taking science A-levels and becoming a vet, she studied Latin, Greek and ancient history and took a stage in classics.