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...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 74; no. 6; pp. 1001 - 1015 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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