This paper explores how the symbolic use of the recurrent metaphors of the wound and the flame not only shapes Virgil’s story of Dido (and her book in the Aeneid) but also the history of the reception of the queen of Carthage. Virgil had subtly exploited these metaphors (and their ‘realisation’) to deftly allude to the pre-Virgilian Dido – and to Dido’s intertextual sisters. The way in which later poets and artists engage in acknowledging and representing this metaphorical play also defines their functional reading of Virgil’s poetry.

Il saggio propone nuove interpretazione dell'uso simbolico delle metafore nella poesia virgiliana e offre significative o originali novità nell'analisi intertestuale del IV libro dell'Eneide. le scelte metodologiche sono discusse esplicitamente nel lavoro e il connubio tra analisi intertestuale e ermeneutica nella ricezione costituisce un elemento innovativo nello studio di testi e di problemi a lungo dibattuti.

Antonio Ziosi (2020). Wounds and Flames: Dido and Her Sisters. SKENÈ. JOURNAL OF THEATRE AND DRAMA STUDIES, 6(1), 113-153 [10.13136/sjtds.v6i1.279].

Wounds and Flames: Dido and Her Sisters

Antonio Ziosi
2020

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This paper explores how the symbolic use of the recurrent metaphors of the wound and the flame not only shapes Virgil’s story of Dido (and her book in the Aeneid) but also the history of the reception of the queen of Carthage. Virgil had subtly exploited these metaphors (and their ‘realisation’) to deftly allude to the pre-Virgilian Dido – and to Dido’s intertextual sisters. The way in which later poets and artists engage in acknowledging and representing this metaphorical play also defines their functional reading of Virgil’s poetry.
2020
Antonio Ziosi (2020). Wounds and Flames: Dido and Her Sisters. SKENÈ. JOURNAL OF THEATRE AND DRAMA STUDIES, 6(1), 113-153 [10.13136/sjtds.v6i1.279].
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