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Creusa's death is framed by Jiang as useful to Aeneas because it frees him to marry into a new lineage and avoids the embarrassment of a wife enslaved by Greeks.
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Creusa's death is framed by Jiang as useful to Aeneas because it frees him to marry into a new lineage and avoids the embarrassment of a wife enslaved by Greeks.
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Jiang reads Creusa's disappearance or death as Virgil's model of the 'good wife': she removes herself so Aeneas can embrace Rome's future and avoid dishonor.
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"The most important person in the family is the patriarch, the father. Then is the son who inherits. And the wife is just someone..."
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"And therefore she has to kill herself to free him. But not only that, but if she were to become a slave to the..."
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"Creusa, nothing, no reply. And again, Creusa. But then as I mildly rushed from house to house, no one in sight, abruptly. Right before..."
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"Dispel your tears for Ryusa, whom you loved. I will never behold the high and mighty pride of their palaces, the Myrmidons, the Dilopians,..."
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"He goes back and he's discovered that his wife has killed herself. Why? Because she knows that in this new world that they're going..."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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