Virgil’s Rival Sororities: Dido and Anna, Camilla and Acca

Abstract

Virgil carefully arranges the appearances of the pairs Dido and Anna, Camilla and Acca as an integral part of his commentary on the Trojan progression from Carthage to Italy, and as part of his allegorical reminiscence of Cleopatra at Alexandria and at Actium.

Keywords

• Virgil
• Aeneid
• Dido
• Camilla
• Anna
• Acca