This passage intrigues me, and I want to know more about the story she has to tell. What first flagged my attention to this passage is the name, Dido. I have only heard this name in the movie, Belle, which is about the beginning of the end of slavery in England. I would love to know more about the Roman Dido's story so that I could compare that to the charismatic Dido from the movie.

The theme this passage, in general, recalls is the female voice in Greek/Roman mythology. Perhaps, this isn't so much a theme, but rather a modern interpretation of a pattern within these tales. We have spent quite a bit of class time on discussing female experiences, roles, stereotypes in the mythological stories we have read and are reading. So far, I like