... guide but also as an authority on the episode of Aeneas and Dido. He places Dido together with Cleopatra, Helen, Achilles and Paris to Circle Two of Hell "the Carnal "designed for those who betrayed reason, succumbing to excessive desire and passion. In contrast, Virgil's pious Aeneas, accompanied by Caesar and Hector, finds himself in a more inviting location, in Circle One ... : Limbo, an illustrious place of virtuous and wise pagans. Accordingly, it appears that ... Chaucer's modern auctor stands in defence of Aeneas the Hero and thus advocates the Virgilian truth by letting the ......

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