Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid Volume 8

by Marilynn Desmond

Book Overview

Describes the variations in the figure of Dido as she emerges from ancient literary texts.

If we view the Aeneid--the poem of empire, conquest, and male hierarchy-as the West's quintessential canonical text and Latin primer, then the history of Virgil readership should tell us much about the concept of education in the West. In this book, Marilynn Desmond reveals how a constructed and mediated tradition of reading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816622477
• ISBN13: 9780816622474
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"