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Virgil and the Wooden Horse*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

R. G. Austin
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In his play Dido Queen of Carthage, compassing Troy's fall, Aeneas' wanderings, and Dido's passion (with the curtain falling not on one corpse but on three), Marlowe makes his Dido say as she begs for the tale of Troy:

‘Many tales go of that city's fall,

And scarcely do agree upon one point:

Some say, Antenor did betray the town;

Others report, 'twas Sinon's perjury;

But all in this, that Troy is overcome,

And Priam dead.’

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1-2 , November 1959 , pp. 16 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © R. G. Austin 1959. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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Footnotes

*

A paper delivered at the Triennial Meeting of the Roman and Hellenic Societies at Cambridge, on 8 August, 1958. In preparing it for JRS, I was tempted to include some account of the representations of the Horse in sculpture or painting, or on coins, but the suggestion proved impracticable for this paper.

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