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In Jiang's reading of Roman values, a wife should remove herself if she burdens the husband's destiny or honor.
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wifely duty
In Jiang's reading of Roman values, a wife should remove herself if she burdens the husband's destiny or honor.
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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 summarizes the Roman perception of wifely duty as self-erasure when a wife is no longer useful to the husband's destiny.
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"...life. Right? Okay. So that is the Roman perception of a wifely duty. Okay. If you're not useful to your husband, just kill yourself...."
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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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"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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