It's so interesting to me that in these ancient epics so full of blood and conquest, you often have these semi random interludes of the protagonist with someone who is rejected. There is Odysseus with both Circe an Calypso, and now there is Aeneas and Dido. It's as though the ancient authors recognized the significance of conquest and land and adventure, and equated it to this struggle for acceptance and love. Now it seems that their perceptions of love were a bit off from what you and I would probably define them as, but still, this is how they perceived it. It's really sad to me how in nearly every instance, the person is rejected. Still it's fascinating to me that in a world of so much power and warfare, etc, the matters of the heart are deemed in near equal importance.
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Very interesting point. Never viewed it in that perspective. Very true though.
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