We spend a lot of our time in this episode discussing the beguiling character of Camilla, a fearsome warrior and virginal acolyte of the goddess Diana. Camilla is represented in Book XI as being a kind of Amazonian princess: primitive, noble, powerful, uncorrupted (shades of Rousseau and the “noble savage” to be sure). However, whatever her qualities, she is ultimately defeated by Aeneas and the Trojans, just like everything else in this poem that has opposed Roman destiny. The odd manner of her death – felled by an ignoble minor character who meets his own end soon after – provides us with many questions. And how can we put Camilla in conversation with Dido, or Lavinia (or Helen of Troy, or Cleopatra), the other female centers of gravity of the Aeneid? We finally return to the larger and more vexing questions about the meaning and role of women in this poem.