Anna (the Phoenician - Jewish Hannah , Hn , cf. Anna ) is the sister of Elissa , the mythologized founder of Carthage.
For the first time, Anna is mentioned by Neviy [1] , where she appears as Didona’s sister. Virgil speaks of Anna as a sister and Didona’s faithful confidante [2] .
According to Varro, it is Anna, not Dido, who is the victim of love for Aeneas [3] . According to the myth, after the death of her sister, she fled from Carthage to Italy to Aeneas and, having aroused the jealousy of his wife Lavinia , rushed into the river of Numions. Subsequently, under the name of Anna Perenna , they began to honor her as a nymph of this river [4] .
About Anna tells Ovid in "Fastah". Ovid reports that the Numidians , led by Yarbantov ( Giyarb ), captured Carthage . Anna was forced to flee, and committed suicide. According to Ovid, Iarbant captured Carthage, but held him only three years, after which the independence of the city was restored [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Neviy, fr. 21
- ↑ Virgil Aen., IV, 6-53, 674-687
- ↑ Varro, ap. Serv. Aen., IV, 682
- ↑ Anna in the book. "A brief dictionary of mythology and antiquities." M.Korsh. St. Petersburg, edition of A.S. Suvorin, 1894.
- ↑ Ovid. Fasts III, 345–654
Links
- Yu. B. Tsirkin Ovid on the first war between the Libyans and Carthage in the book. “Zhebelev readings-3. Abstracts of scientific conferences October 29-31, 2001 ”. SPb., 2001, p. 237–244.