Vol. 16 No. 3 (1990): XVI - 1990, fascicolo 3
Articoli

Il libro di Didone: una tragedia nell’Eneide

Published 2023-11-22

Keywords

  • Vergil,
  • Aeneid,
  • Dido,
  • tragedy,
  • Latin poetry

Abstract

The fourth book of the Aeneid has many tragic features, both formal and structural: a prologue, a sequence of dialogues and monologues, a threefold partition (love, crisis, death), divine intervention, and conflict between human passions and fate.