The Dido-Aeneas Story from Vergil to Dryden

Author / Editor
Britton, Elizabeth Lindsey.

Title
The Dido-Aeneas Story from Vergil to Dryden

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 3642A.

Description
Consider "the two quite different versions of the Dido and Cleopatra stories as they appear in the works of major Latin and English poets, beginning with the commissioning of Virgil's "Aeneid" ca. 29 B.C. and carrying through to the publication of Dryden's translation" of it in 1697. Includes discussion of Chaucer's version of Dido and Cleopatra in HF and LGW.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Legend of Good Women