Rape of Dido & Other Literary Mysteries, Re: DJ Freddy J Spins the Phat Trax

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jul 3 12:40:01 PDT 2001


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



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