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the-tls.co.uk | Mary Beard
That is a quote from an anonymous poem in the Palatine Anthology, words put in the mouth of Dido, explaining that the whole story of her relationship with Aeneas was a fiction: I never laid eyes on Aeneas, and I did not come to Libya at the time Troy was sacked. Rather, it was to avoid a forced marriage with Iarbas that I stuck the double-bladed sword through my heart. Muses, why did you equip that awful Virgil with weapons against me?
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the-tls.co.uk | Mary Beard
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A decorative strap junction from the Melsonby Hoard | © Rebecca Griffiths, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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the-tls.co.uk | Mary Beard
Suovetaurilia to the God Mars at the Louvre, c. first century © Louvre Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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the-tls.co.uk | Mary Beard
Copies of A Room of One's Own at Monk's House | © Andrew Benton/Alamy
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