Weeping for Dido : the classics in the medieval classroom /
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 studied but performed classical works. Woods opens the classroom door by examining...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | E. H. Gombrich lecture series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Images; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations, Sigla, and Rhetorical Terms; A Short Introduction; Chapter 1. Memory, Emotion, and the Death of a Queen: Teaching the Aeneid; Chapter 2. Troy Books for Boys: Glosses on the Achilleid and Ilias latina; Chapter 3. Boys Performing Women (and Men): The Classics and After; Works Cited; Index Locorum; Manuscript Index; General Index