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DIDO (UNSEEN) HEARS THE NAME AENEAS.
DIDO MYTHICAL AGE : YOUNGISH?
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC
TYRE CARTHAGE ? PHOENICIAN
DESCRIPTION
VOICE ONLY.
DIDO: MYTHICAL QUEEN OF PHOENICIAN CARTHAGE, PROBABLY AN INCARNATION OF ASTARTE THE GREAT GODDESS, WHO
LOVED AENEAS & COMMITTED SUICIDE WHEN HE DESERTED HER. SHE BROKE FAITH WITH THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
SYCHAEUS FOR HIM. (AENEID 1)
DIDO (VOICE):
AENEID 4 365-366 / VIRGIL AENEID 4 365-366 / KLINE
nec tibi diua parens generis…perfide Deceiver, your mother was no goddess.
VIRGIL: & VIRGIL:
AENEID 6 455 / VIRGIL AENEID 6 455 / KLINE
infelix Dido… Dido, unhappy spirit…
DIDO (VOICE):
AENEID 4 386 / VIRGIL AENEID 4 386 / KLINE
dabis, improbe, poenas. Cruel one, you’ll be punished.
DANTE CONTINUES.
DANTE: & DANTE:
INF C4 123 / DANTE INF C4 123 / KLINE
Cesare armato con li occhi grifagni. and Caesar, armed, with his eagle eye.
CAESAR: JULIUS
DANTE:
INF C4 124-126 / DANTE INF C4 124-126 / KLINE
Vidi Cammilla e la Pantasilea; I saw Camilla and Penthesilea,
da l'altra parte vidi 'l re Latino on the other side, and the King of Latium,
che con Lavina sua figlia sedea. Latinus, with Lavinia, his daughter.
CAMILLA: A VIRGIN WARRIOR, THE ROMAN VERSION OF AN AMAZON, WHOSE DEATH IS DESCRIBED IN AENEID 11.
PENTHESILEA: AMAZON QUEEN, KILLED BY ACHILLES WHEN SHE FOUGHT FOR THE TROJANS DURING THE TROJAN WAR. THE
TYPE OF A NOBLE WOMAN.
LATINUS: KING OF LATIUM, AN ANCESTOR OF THE ROMANS THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER LAVINIA, THIRD WIFE OF AENEAS.
INF C4 127-129 / DANTE INF C4 127-129 / KLINE
Vidi quel Bruto che cacciò Tarquino, I saw that Brutus who expelled Tarquin,
Lucrezia, Iulia, Marzïa e Corniglia; Lucretia, Julia, Marcia and Cornelia,
e solo, in parte, vidi 'l Saladino. and I saw Saladin, by himself, apart.
LUCIUS JUNIUS BRUTUS: THE TYPE OF A NOBLE ROMAN OF THE REPUBLIC. CONQUERED TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS, WHOSE SON
HAD RAPED LUCRETIA, COLLATINE’S WIFE, IN 510 BC.
LUCRETIA: WIFE OF THE ROMAN COLLATINE, RAPED BY THE SON OF TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS. A NOBLE, WRONGED WIFE.
JULIA: JULIUS CAESAR’S DAUGHTER BY CORNELIA. SHE MARRIED POMPEY. A TYPE OF THE NOBLE ROMAN WOMAN.
MARCIA: NOTED FOR HER INTEGRITY & NOBILITY. A TYPE OF THE NOBLE ROMAN WIFE. SECOND WIFE OF CATO, WHO
YIELDED HER TO HIS FRIEND QUINTUS HORTENSIUS. WHEN HE DIED SHE MARRIED CATO AGAIN. DANTE’S CONVITO TREATS
HER RETURN TO CATO AS AN ALLEGORY OF THE SOUL’S RETURN TO GOD.
CORNELIA: DAUGHTER OF SCIPIO AFRICANUS. MOTHER OF TIBERIUS & CAIUS THE TWO FAMOUS TRIBUNES, THE GRACCHI. A
TYPE OF THE NOBLE ROMAN WOMAN. SHE CLAIMED THAT ‘HER SONS WERE HER JEWELS’.
SALADIN: SULTAN OR SOLDAN, SALHAD-DIN, 1137-1193 AD, KURDISH FOUNDER OF THE AYYUBID DYNASTY OF EGYPT. HE
TOOK JERUSALEM IN 1187 AD. DANTE’S TYPE OF ISLAMIC NOBILITY & MAGNIFICENCE.
VIRGIL INTERPRETS DANTE TO THE AUDIENCE.
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