Magic and Memory: Dido's Ritual for Inducing Forgetfulness in Aeneid 4.

In this article, I examine the nature of Dido's magic ritual in Aeneid 4, reading it as a magic ritual aimed at inducing forgetfulness. I argue that in burning his belongings, Dido intends to forget Aeneas and not to destroy him; for this purpose, I study this episode in the light of non-literary so...

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Publicado en:Mnemosyne Vol. 74; no. 6; pp. 1001 - 1015
Autor principal: Silva, Gabriel A.F.
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