Aeneas and Dido in the underworld by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 314 - Scenes from Virgil) 1607-1677
"Not far from thence, the Mournful Fields appear
So call’d from lovers that inhabit there.
The souls whom that unhappy flame invades,
In secret solitude and myrtle shades
Make endless moans, and, pining with desire,
Lament too late their unextinguish’d fire.
Here Procris, Eriphyle here he found,
Baring her breast, yet bleeding with the wound
Made by her son. He saw Pasiphae there,
With Phaedra’s ghost, a foul incestuous pair.
There Laodamia, with Evadne, moves,
Unhappy both, but loyal in their loves:
Caeneus, a woman once, and once a man,
But ending in the sex she first began.
Not far from these Phoenician Dido stood,
Fresh from her wound, her bosom bath’d in blood;
Whom when the Trojan hero hardly knew”
-Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6
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| Aeneas and Dido in the underworld by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 314) 1607-1677. Behind Aeneas stands a sibyl (prophetess), who guides him in the underworld. |
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https://hollar.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/hollar%3AHollar_k_0331
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