Opening book details…
Can I read Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series, 4) on EtoBox?
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series, 4) by Woods, Marjorie Curry is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series, 4) about?
<p>Saint Augustine famously “wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,” and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil’s <i>Aeneid</i> and other classical texts. In <i>Weeping for Dido</i>, Marjorie Curry Woods takes readers into the medieval classroom, where boys identified with Dido, where teachers turned an unfinished classical poem into a bildungsroman about young Achilles, and where students not only stu
Who reads Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series, 4)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Woods, Marjorie Curry
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press/Princeton and Oxford
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691188744
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Computer Science, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Woods, Marjorie Curry
Browse all works by Woods, Marjorie Curry
Similar books
- How the Classics Made Shakespeare (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series, 3) — Jonathan Bate (2019)
- Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid (Volume 8) (Medieval Cultures) — Marilynn Desmond; ProQuest (Firm) (1994)
- Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 24) — Christopher Baswell (2006)
- Classroom Commentaries: Teaching The Poetria Nova Across Medieval And Renaissance Europe (text And Context) — Marjorie Curry Woods (2010)
- Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series Book 6) — Philip R Hardie (2022)
- The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom: The Role of Ancient Texts in the Arts Curriculum as Revealed by Surviving Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (disputatio) — Juanita Feros Ruys & John O. Ward & Melanie Heyworth (2011)