... , that hit tellen kan. (ll. 447-50) Nick Havely points out that Dante's appearance in the House of Fame in the presence of the two classical auctores "Virgil and Claudian "suggests Dante's unique position as a modern auctor, specifically "as an authority on Hell-. In his Inferno, Dante does not seem to follow Virgil simply as his 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 " ... /reader sympathises or identifies himself with Dido, he must perceive Aeneas from the queen's ...

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