Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom
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Saint Augustine famously "wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword," and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil's Aeneid and other classical texts. In Weeping for Dido, Marjorie Curry Woods takes readers into the medieval classroom, where boys identified with Dido, where teachers turned an unfinished classical poem into a bildungsroman about...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691170800
ISBN13:9780691170800
Release Date:February 2019
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"
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