The Aeneid - Colleen Reilly
Reilly thinks that Virgil intentionally...
“portrays characters in a way that serves simultaneously as a threat to traditional gender roles in Roman society while also providing an example of ideal Roman values.”
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Practice Question
‘Women are at the heart of the epic.’ Evaluate how far this is true of the way mortal women are depicted in the Iliad. [30]