The eloquence of Dido: exploring speech and gender in Virgil’s Aeneid
This paper explores the idea of female speech in Roman epic by comparing the public speeches of Dido welcoming first Ilioneus and then Aeneas at 1.561-78 and 1.613-30 with the analogous speeches of Latinus at 7.192-211 and 7.249-73. It applies concepts, ideas and observations about feminine discours...
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| Language: | deu |
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Université Lille-3
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Dictynna |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/993 |