Directions: Write 530-1000 word essay on one of the topics below (do not forget to post your essay in the folder "Submit papers here" in addition to bringing a paper copy to class).

1. Both Dido and Aeneas change throughout the first half of Virgil's Aeneid. Examine this transformation for either Dido or Aeneas with regard to one or more of the virtues of the mos maiorum.
2. How is the relationship of Dido and Aeneas like or unlike that of Catullus and Lesbia, Ovid and his girlfriend, Horace and his girls, or Antony and Cleopatra?