Dido's Love In The Aeneid

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While Dido’s love is one that is between two physical bodies, Aeneas’ real love, on the other hand, is one of fate; it is his love for the future of the Trojan race in Rome. Dido’s type of beauty is least significant on the spectrum of what is beautiful, where Diotima’s says that the goddess Moira “is really beauty” (Sym. 206d). Moira signifying fate indicates that what really is beautiful is one’s destiny and that Aeneas’ desire to follow his destiny is the ideal love. The fall of Troy “that had for many years/ Been queen” (Aen. 2.38) makes a large impact upon the Trojans that it brings “Unspeakable sorrow” (Aen. 2.27). Aeneas, devoted to his race, begins his pursuit of fate when Apollo prophesied that “The house of Aeneas will rule the world”

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