Weeping for Dido : The Classics in the Medieval Classroom /
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 tak...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Images; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations, Sigla, and Rhetorical Terms; A Short Introduction; Chapter 1. Memory, Emotion, and the Death of a Queen: Teaching the Aeneid; Chapter 2. Troy Books for Boys: Glosses on the Achilleid and Ilias latina; Chapter 3. Boys Performing Women (and Men): The Classics and After; Works Cited; Index Locorum; Manuscript Index; General Index