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Volume 149, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0035-6220
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Abstract

Abstract

Virgil’s concept of love in book 4 of the is completely negative, perhaps the most terrible in the whole of Latin literature. The reasons for this can be understood only by explaining some unclear passages in book 4 correctly. For love is the cause of irreparable psychological and moral degradation: the loss of , and ; the neglect of and ; the loss of composure and, ultimately, her suicide. So, as a result of love, the behavior of the queen becomes the antithesis of traditional Roman values, but also of proper Epicurean behavior: book 4 of is, in fact, an important ideological model for Virgil.

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