AZ ÁTKOKAT SZÓRÓ DIDO (VERGILIUS, AENEIS IV. ÉNEK)
Curse called down by Dido (Aeneas 4th Book by Vergilius)

Summary/Abstract: By his desire for peace, by his human and political perspicacity, and by his prophetical capacity, Vergilius was an uncompromising poet. In the person of the princeps, however, the history interfered in his vocation and poetry. He was compelled to rewrite the IVth book of his Georgica, because Augustus did not tolerate the praise of Gallus, his former friend and commander. The crisis even of his private life can well be traced by help of the figure of Galatea of his eclogues. Finally, the mighty curse, called down by Dido, leads us to recognize that Terentia, Maecenas’ wife of tragical fate, is hidden behind the figure of the Carthaginian queen. In the Galatea of Horace (Ode III. 27) Terentia can also be well recognized. Thus, the intertextual connection between this ode and Book IV of the Aeneis proves the identity of Galatea and Dido and Terentia convincingly.

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