Tuesday, July 26, 2011

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 85



Hosea's description of a biblical people who attempt to return to paganism....
seen as picture of Dido, a pagan who having been 'infected' with Aeneas' historical project of building Rome, cannot return to just being queen of Carthage...
a preface to the difference in perspectives between Vergil and Ovid....










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