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Dido, Berenice, and Arsinoe: Aeneid 6.460

Patricia A. Johnston

American Journal of Philology. (Winter, 1987) pp. 649-654

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[384 words] aeneas, vergil, aeneid, virgil, dido, turnus, troy, anchises, trojans, juno, epic, venus, poem, jupiter, trojan, italy, hero, servius, latinus, carthage, poet, episode, mezentius, words, future, simile, books, story, ascanius, lines

[79 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[75 words] passage, atque, virgil, lines, nunc, ovid, ille, vergil, lucan, line, haec, caput, inter, hinc, ipse, terra, passages, silius, sanguine, quem, illa, ante, omnia, arma, mare, manus, tibi, super, caelum, sidera

[66 words] king, ptolemy, kings, antiochos, royal, antiochus, egypt, ptolemaic, parthian, armenia, mithridates, arsinoe, ptolemies, alexandria, seleucid, kingdom, reign, hellenistic, antioch, throne, cleopatra, ptolemaios, parthians, philadelphus, euergetes, parthia, queen, polemo, title, tigranes

[40 words] catullus, poem, poems, martial, poet, lesbia, poetry, line, lines, catullan, ariadne, love, calvus, quinn, attis, epigrams, epigram, ellis, fordyce, kroll, theseus, otium, furius, laodamia, puella, allius, passer, nepos, caecilius, cinna

[38 words] women, marriage, children, woman, wife, family, child, slave, mother, husband, slaves, daughter, married, father, male, female, her_husband, parents, his_wife, status, wives, household, young, girl, bride, marry, birth, sons, girls, sexual

[37 words] callimachus, epigram, poem, epigrams, poet, poems, poetry, archilochus, hellenistic, poets, anth, simonides, theognis, lines, pfeiffer, aetia, fragment, meleager, callimachean, page, line, hymn, hipponax, poetic, tyrtaeus, palladas, literary, theocritus, elegy, epitaph

[29 words] fire, water, earth, wind, rain, winds, heat, cold, weather, night, lightning, storm, clouds, thunder, burning, eruption, snow, volcanic, cloud, winter, drought, darkness, smoke, hail, fires, flame, earthquakes, flames, pumice, phenomena

[26 words] dead, orpheus, hades, underworld, admetus, alcestis, heracles, dreams, souls, dream, eurydice, sleep, tartarus, elysium, living, charon, earth, insomnia, protesilaus, lament, persephone, journey, orphic, afterlife, pheres, apollo, cerberus, thanatos, gates, pluto

[22 words] story, king, himself, told, tale, night, city, sent, house, killed, away, having, whom, father, took, home, stories, wife, his_father, version, woman, child, return, dream, his_wife, dead, gave, children, mother, hands

[18 words] story, myth, ovid, apollo, stories, myths, version, tale, legend, metamorphoses, narrative, mythological, episode, tradition, phaethon, metamorphosis, versions, rape, daedalus, daughter, told, mythical, birth, theseus, aphrodite, pelops, hymn, zeus, tales, name

[17 words] tibi, mihi, quid, ovid, nunc, haec, quis, tamen, esse, ille, illa, semper, ipse, erit, sine, quoque, fuit, amor, saepe, nobis, quem, licet, puer, bene, trist, habet, nostra, manus, modo, erat

[13 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[11 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[10 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[10 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[9 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[8 words] comments, suggestions, helpful, anonymous, help, version, advice, draft, assistance, valuable, referee, express, gratitude, referees, encouragement, professors, provided, reading, criticism, seminar, criticisms, generous, humanities, drafts, grant, colleagues, acknowledge, classics, delivered, errors

[6 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[5 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[5 words] esse, atque, enim, etiam, quid, neque, cicero, eius, nihil, quidem, esset, tamen, nisi, mihi, sibi, quibus, erat, causa, haec, fuit, omnia, modo, quem, autem, omnes, ipse, sine, quis, ille, rerum