Book 4 Flashcards
Dido’s misery
‘The flame was eating the soft marrow of her bones’
‘Dido was on fire with love… like a wounded doe… sticking in her side the arrow that will bring her death’
Venus and Juno’s intervention
Juno after saying they will hunt and seek refuge in the cave ‘I shall be there, and if you’re settled with me on this, I shall join them in lasting marriage and make her his. This will be their wedding’
Forgetting duty
Rumour spreading that Aeneas and Dido were ‘indulging themselves and keeping each other warm all winter through, forgetting about their kingdoms and becoming slaves of lust’
Iarbas & the alternate view of the Trojans
‘and now this second Paris, with eunuchs in attendance and hair dripping in perfume and a Maeonian bonnet tied under his chin, is enjoying what he has stolen’
Mercury and the effect of his words on Aeneas
‘Have you entirely forgotten your own kingdom and your own destiny’
‘spare a thought for Ascanius… you owe him the land of Rome and the kingdom of Italy’
‘The warning, the command from the gods, had struck him like a thunderbolt’
Aeneas’ stoicism in the face of Dido’s pleas
‘Just as the north winds of the alps vie with one another to uproot the mighty oak.. blowing upon it from this side and from that… just so the hero Aeneas was buffeted by pleading… and felt the pain deep in his mighty heart but his mind remained unmoved and his tears rolled in vain’
Anna’s lack of knowledge she was building her sister’s pyre when Dido asked her to build one to burn Aeneas’ things
‘Anna did not understand that these strange rites were a pretence that her sister meant to die… She did what she was asked’
Dido’s madness
‘Could I not have put his men to the sword, and Ascanius too, and served his flesh at his father’s table?’
When she was laying offerings she ‘saw the consecrated milk go black and the wine, as she poured it, turn to filthy gore’
Dido’s death
‘Let there be war between the nations and between their sons forever’
Anna to Dido ‘it is not only yourself you have destroyed but also your sister and your people’
Juno & Iris’ intervention
