Reading DidoDescribes the variations in the figure of Dido as she emerges from ancient literary texts. If we view the Aeneidthe poem of empire, conquest, and male hierarchy as the West's quintessential canonical text and Latin primer, then the history of Virgil readership should tell us much about the concept of education in the West. In this book, Marilynn Desmond reveals how a constructed and mediated tradition of reading Virgil has conditioned various