Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Wednesday, 12/5 - Broodal!

*P&P

*Figgered I'd title today's entry with a neologism that covers both Dido (brooder) and Aeneas (brutal). That silliness aside, let's discuss what Virgil is doing with Dido and Aeneas as fictional characters representing a tenuous historical relationship between Rome and Carthage during the hundred years that spanned the three Punic Wars.

To do this, let's read the following overview of the wars here. 

Let's now discuss Book 4 and then begin Book 5.  

Here is a link to the schedule over the next two days.

HW: 
  1. Books 5-6
  2. Leithart

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