The Aeneid

Part I of Essay
It was an early summer mourning when the ship of Aeneas washed up on the shores of Carthage, an event that would effect the queen of Carthage forever. When a love affair breaks out between Aeneas and Queen Dido the great queen has an internal conflict between passion and r ....

Part II of Essay
.... about her duties just for Aeneas. We can also see a lack of confidence by the people of Carthage. The people of Carthage feel like they don’t have a leader and are being left to fend for themselves. They feel Dido is not paying any attention to her city, only Aeneas. The effect of this is that the reader feels that Dido should stop goofing around and pay attention to her city. It makes the characters look down on the queen, and begin to loose faith in her. Virgil was trying to rub it in even further that Roman men are irresistible to wo ....