I seem to have a habit of comparing the works we read in this class to works that I've read in the past. With no exception, I can't help but compare book 4 to Romeo and Juliet. Dido is so distressed that she cannot be with her lover that she decides she can no longer live, so she kills herself just like Juliet. But where is Romeo? Aeneas sees Dido's pitiful soul and realizes she killed herself because she could not be with him. While he is troubled by this, he is not as discouraged as Romeo was in Shakespeare's famous play. He continues on with his journey. So based on Dido alone, I think that this part of The Aeneid closely resembles Romeo and Juliet, but that's just me.
P.S. I commented on Jeremy's post.
That's interesting. Over the course of several centuries many different writers wrote about tragedy. Kinda sad, but it shows how in a broken world there are broken people, and that this is recognized by great writers living centuries away from one another.
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