Iarbas
Iarbas (or Hiarbas) was a Roman mythological character, who has appeared in works by various authors including Ovid and Virgil. The character is possibly based on a historical king of Numidia.
In
Dido, who rejected his advances.[2]
Variations of the story were referred to by Ovid. In Ovid's Heroides, Dido describes Iarbas as one of her suitors,[3] to whom Aeneas would be handing her over as a captive if he should leave her.[4] In Ovid's Fasti, Iarbas and the Numidians invade Dido's land after her suicide, resulting in his capturing her palace.[5]
Pompeius Trogus also tell versions of the myth; in Justin
's epitome of Pompeius he is king of the Muxitani.
Saguntine hero Murrus.[6]
Iarbas is briefly referenced in
Dante's Purgatorio as owning part of the land south of Italy.[9] Iarbas is also a character in Christopher Marlowe's play Dido, Queen of Carthage.[10]
References
- ^ Virgil Aeneid 4.198.
- ^ Virgil Aeneid 4.213-4.
- ^ "Book IV". www.cliffsnotes.com. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
- ^ Ovid Heroides 7.125.
- ^ Ovid Fasti 3.551-4.
- ^ a b Martin T. Dinter, "Epitaphic Gestures in Statius and Silius Italicus", in Antony Augoustakis (ed.), Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford University Press, ), pp. 267–286, at 277.
- ^ David J. Mattingly (1995), Tripolitania, B. T. Batsford, p. 56.
- ^ Alison M. Keith, "Engendering Orientalism in Silius' Pvnica", in Antony Agoustakis (ed.), Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus (Brill, 2010), pp. 353–373, at 367.
- Dante Purgatorio31.72.
- ^ "Dido, Queen of Carthage | play by Marlowe and Nashe". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-08-04.