First essay finished ...

This essay will show that it is essential to The Aeneid, an epic poem extolling piety and duty, that Dido’s love is fired by how a dutiful man behaves (rather than tells his story) so that the destructive consequences of demonstrably gendered disregard of duty, and female defiance of male authority, lead inexorably to the collapse of self, State and the operation of law, order and good government.

1200 words.  It's a start.