The meeting of Dido and Aeneas, surely one of the best tellings of any love story, must be Vergil's (a-historical) invention and is among Vergil at his best. Works of music, representational art, and literature followed and continue to follow.
The 'affair' was retold by Ovid from Dido's point of view and is re-told below through a Roman dating app called fomes, aptly so named, given the prominence of fire in this book, whether metaphorical or literal. Cf. Aeneid 1.176.
Read on, as this match made on Olympus unfolds (or, unravels...?)...
The 'affair' was retold by Ovid from Dido's point of view and is re-told below through a Roman dating app called fomes, aptly so named, given the prominence of fire in this book, whether metaphorical or literal. Cf. Aeneid 1.176.
Read on, as this match made on Olympus unfolds (or, unravels...?)...
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So, there you have it. As Professor Edith Hall remarked in an episode of In Our Time, 'everyone has a tragic love affair in their past'.
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