Artistic Senses of Dido’s Carthage

By Mina Đurić
The glimpse of dawn separates a thin line, which, from the plane, seems like just a handhold between Sicily and Tunisia. Today, the measures of the values of diversity and multiculturalism, through the historical waves of Mediterranean trade and the hunger for power, echo the ancient world when this region was a point of battle, force, and pain. But tracing the rhythm of Virgil’s famous epic The Aeneid, “[…] out of sight of Sicily’s isle, in deeper water” (Bk I: 35; trans. by H. R. Fairclough), there lay the shadows of the city of stories, dreams, love, and suffering: “There was ...

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