{"id":3484,"date":"2014-11-13T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2014-11-13T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:16:44","slug":"dido-aeneas-through-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/dido-aeneas-through-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Dido &amp; Aeneas: Through the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salvete Omnes,<\/p>\n<p>I would like to take some time this week to indulge in one of my favorite love stories: Dido and Aeneas. Over this weekend, I saw at the Los Angeles Opera Purcell&#8217;s &#8220;Dido and Aeneas;&#8221; and it got me thinking about the countless retellings of this couple and their themes of love and fate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3485\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/1610823_10153556450220752_6079302346251393624_n.jpg\" aria-label=\"1610823 10153556450220752 6079302346251393624 N 300x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3485\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3485\"  alt=\"Banner at the LA Opera of Dido &amp; Aeneas from my personal camera.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/1610823_10153556450220752_6079302346251393624_n-300x300.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banner at the LA Opera of Dido &amp; Aeneas from my personal camera.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The opera that I saw was an interesting retelling (debuted in 1688) felt extremely Shakespearean and far removed from the Latin and Roman myth. There are no gods and fate is not the villain, but instead three witches.\u00a0 I have provided the opera in its entirety, and interestingly enough it is one of few operas in English.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/30Idh9ySHa8\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/30Idh9ySHa8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OR- if you prefer a quicker rendition of it the opera; check this out!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Opera Cheats: Dido and Aeneas\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFLrl7NiQhQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artwork has constantly retold and reimagined the myth of love and fate to become one of the first (if not the first) star-crossed lovers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3488\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/640px-Meister_des_Vergilius_Vaticanus_001.jpg\" aria-label=\"640px Meister Des Vergilius Vaticanus 001 300x298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3488\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3488\"  alt=\"Aeneid, Book IV, Death of Dido. From the Vergilius Vaticanus (Vatican Library, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225). Courtesy of WikiCommons.\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/640px-Meister_des_Vergilius_Vaticanus_001-300x298.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aeneid, Book IV, Death of Dido. From the Vergilius Vaticanus (Vatican Library, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225). Courtesy of WikiCommons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For those of you who are unfamiliar with the myth of Dido and Aeneas, it is quite heart-breaking. Aeneas is a Trojan survivor who in his own right is a &#8220;hero.&#8221; A hero in the sense that his parentage is one involving a god and a mortal. His mother was Venus and his father was a Trojan commander known as Anchises. Aeneas is fated to find Rome and on the way his fleet arrive at Carthage where Dido reigns. Upon his arrival, Dido&#8217;s cold heart ( widowed and bitter) is melted by Aeneas and Cupid. However their love is not meant to be, because Aeneas must find Troy and Rome and Carthage must have their resentment and bad relationship for future strife.\u00a0 Therefore, Aeneas leaves to find Rome at the bequest of the gods visiting him and reminding him of his fate. And, thus- Dido out of love (perhaps rampaged crazy Cupid causing love) kills herself and curses Aeneas and his people (Romans).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3489\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/320px-Dido_Cochet_Louvre_ENT2000_10.jpg\" aria-label=\"320px Dido Cochet Louvre ENT2000 10 135x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3489\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3489\"  alt=\"Dido, attributed to Christophe Cochet, formerly at Marly (Louvre). Courtesy of WikiCommons.\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/320px-Dido_Cochet_Louvre_ENT2000_10-135x300.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dido, attributed to Christophe Cochet, formerly at Marly (Louvre). Courtesy of WikiCommons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furthermore,\u00a0 this story of Aeneas and Dido from Vergil&#8217;s Aeneid has also found its way into modern television and retellings. There is a wonderful article on how the Aeneid ( an thus Dido and Aeneas) is retold in Battlestar Galactica (the article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/charlottehigginsblog\/2009\/feb\/24\/classics-classics\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). The Aeneid even finds it way into the Star Trek lore; as seen (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/The_Aeneid\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"158\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/320px-Dido_Cochet_Louvre_ENT2000_10-158x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/320px-Dido_Cochet_Louvre_ENT2000_10-158x350.jpg 158w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/320px-Dido_Cochet_Louvre_ENT2000_10.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><p>Salvete Omnes, I would like to take some time this week to indulge in one of my favorite love stories: Dido and Aeneas. Over this weekend, I saw at the Los Angeles Opera Purcell&#8217;s &#8220;Dido and Aeneas;&#8221; and it got me thinking about the countless retellings of this couple and their themes of love and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/dido-aeneas-through-the-ages\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3691,60854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-language","category-roman-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}