Title: Songs of the Dying Swan: An Examination from 14th-16th Century English Adaptations of the Aeneas and Dido Myth

Abstract: My research objective is to find out how the depictions of the god(s) within classical Latin source texts and the early English adaptations of the tragic love story of Aeneas and Dido ranging from the 14th to 16th century frame the way we perceive the actions and character of the mortals it concerns. The purpose of looking at the relationship between the depiction of divinity to the perception of the human characters within the story of Aeneas and Dido before and across the English Reformation is to see if there is a notable shift in more Catholic to more Protestant sentiments and undertones across this period of time.

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Update: This project won the Outstanding Thesis Award from the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program in the category of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities