O modelo aristotélico na configuração do episódido de Dido na Eneida de Virgílio

Abstract

The construction of Dido's episode in Virgil's Aeneid is based in a tragic model, which does not result only of the exploitation of certain elements that, according to Aristotle, are common to tragedy and epic, nor of the additions of tragic elements that favor correspondence between the queen of Carthage and certain tragic heroines; on the contrary, the tragic configuration of the episode extends itself, according to the generality of criticism, to its conceptual and structural plans. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the influence of the Aristotelian model in the configuration of the episode, as well as analyzing the problem of the hamartia (Poetics, 13. 1453ª) that underlies the fall of Dido.