Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> And the seduction and abandonment--the mental rape--of Queen
> Dido in the "Aeneid" has always seemed to me to be... profoundly
> unhealthy... glorification of brutality toward the (relatively)
> powerless...
>
This, along with the separation scene in book 9 of PL & Maggie Verver vs Charlotte in Golden Bowl is one of the great continuing mysteries of western literature.
Carrol