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  • I have seen "Creusa," (477) and more than agree with you: it is the only new tragedy that I ever saw and really liked.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

  • Aeneas, rather like Frodo, has a quest to follow and fulfill, and is grimly conscious of that burden (which loses him the first two women he loves, his Trojan wife Creusa and Dido of Carthage).

    February Books 16) Lavinia, by Ursula Le Guin nwhyte 2010

  • Compared to Creusa and Dido, Lavinia seems like a bit of a wallflower, except for one scene where her hair catches fire and she's not burned.

    A Princess Seeking a Voice 2008

  • Virgil's Aeneas was a warrior and wanderer, whose first wife, Creusa, had died in the siege of Troy.

    A Princess Seeking a Voice 2008

  • Jason abandoned Hypsipyle for Medea, and her, for Creusa.

    Satyricon 2007

  • The fine sentiments that Virgil puts into the mouth of the shade of Creusa, content with having died while serving against the Greeks, "she was a Trojan, and she wedded the son of Venus"; the confession with which Andromache, confronted by the murderer of her first husband, responds to the question of

    Satyricon 2007

  • She was Medea, and if Jason was volage, woe to Creusa!

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Creusa died in the flames of Troy, but her son did escape with Aeneas and Anchises, and did come to Latium.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • It is more romantic to believe that Iulus was the son of Creusa, but more likely, I think, that he was the son of Lavinia.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Below him rolled the blown dry clouds, full of silver and living shadow beneath Lavinia and hasty Creusa.

    The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

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