You even hoped to keep me in the dark/As to this outrage, did you, two-faced man, and slip away in silence?
: Virgil’s protagonist loses his wife when he and his family flee their home while the Greeks take the city; Aeneas reaches safety only to discover that his wife is missing. Aeneas recounts for Queen Dido how he searched for Creusa amidst the chaos. I “filled the streets with calling; in my grief,” he says, … Read more