Dido’s purse
Christopher Baswell
Not one Dido but a variety of Didos have engaged European cultures since antiquity. Reaching toward politics and eroticism domesticity, exciting fear admiration, encoding stereotypes Orient West, this helps account for the continuity her presence as culture meets era encounters era. By unravelling Dido's purse strings, through consideration Carthage its queen focus moveable wealth, cunning trade, technology, essay is led to reflect upon an intriguing dynamic medieval textuality, impact margin, by which multiple figures vie dominance within transmission Virgilian narrative from late antiquity later Middle Ages. Concealed in obscure term byrsa, story's suppression fold or bay text undone that text's own margins.
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