Dido (dī`dō), in Roman mythology, queen of Carthage, also called Elissa. She was the daughter of a king of Tyre. After her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband, she fled to Libya, where she founded and ruled Carthage. According to one legend, Dido threw herself on a burning pyre to escape marriage to the king of Libya. In the Aeneid, Vergil tells how she fell in love with Aeneas Aeneas , in Greek mythology, a Trojan, son of Anchises and Aphrodite. After the fall of Troy he escaped, bearing his aged father on his back. He stayed at Carthage with Queen Dido, then went to Italy, where his descendants founded Rome.
..... Click the link for more information. , who had been shipwrecked at Carthage, and destroyed herself on the pyre when, at Jupiter's command, he left to continue his journey to Italy.

Dido

In Greek legend, the founder of Carthage. She fled to North Africa after the murder of her husband and bought land from a local chieftain, Iarbas. She killed herself rather than marry him. Virgil altered the story in his Aeneid, in which Dido welcomes Aeneas to Carthage during his travels, becomes his lover, and kills herself when he abandons her.

Dido

contracts for as much land as can be enclosed by an oxhide; by cutting it into a strip she obtains enough to found a city. [Rom. Legend: Collier’s VI, 259]

See : Cunning

Dido

kills herself when Aeneas abandons her. [Rom. Myth.: Avery, 392–393; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]

See : Suicide

(also Elissa), in ancient mythology the sister of the king of Tyre (in Phoenicia). Founder of Carthage.

According to the Roman version of the myth as treated in Book IV of Vergil’s Aeneid, Dido fell in love with Aeneas, who was cast upon the shores of Carthage by a storm. After his departure she committed suicide. The figure of the lovesick and abandoned Dido has enjoyed great popularity through the centuries in literature, opera (H. Purcell, J. Haydn, and others), and painting (A. Mantegna, P. Rubens, S. Bourdon, H. Fiiger, and others).

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No references found	Here we are treated to a reading that strives to uncover Virgil's importance for authors who read against the text of his work, as it has become fashionable to say, a Virgil that is no longer a servant to the project of Western geopolitical domination but rather an author who can be read as possessing a subtly camouflaged sympathy for the losers, the Turnuses and Didos of the world, beneath his overt triumphalism. The Other Virgil: "Pessimistic" Readings of the Aeneid in Early ... by Blanchard, W. Scott / Renaissance Quarterly Can anyone remember a time when the musical landscape wasn't dominated by young women, an era that pre-dates the Lilys and Amys, the Corinnes and Josses, the Kates and the Katies, the KTs and the MIAs, the Duffys as well as the Didos all clamouring for our attention? Adele, 19 by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk Dido might have been playing across town, but with female vocalists Sia Furler and Sophie Barker behind the mic, it was like getting two Didos for the price of one. the razz live reviews: ZERO SOUNDS TO THE FOUR; Singing quartet hit ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)	DID DIDA Didache didactic Didactic Literature Didactics Didaskalos diddle Diddley, Bo Didelot, Charles Louis didelphic Didelphidae dideoxy method Diderot Diderot, Denis didgeridoo Didgori, Battle of Didion, Joan Didius Julianus Dido Dido and Aeneas Dido's problem didodecyl ether Didolodontidae Didon, Henri didos Didot Didot family didot point Didot, François DIDP Didrikson, Babe Didur, Adam Didyma Didymelales Didymiaceae didymium didymolite Didymosporae didymous Didymus Didymus Chalcenterus Didymus of Alexandria didynamous die die adapter die blade die block die body Die Brucke Die Brücke	didn't trust as far as can throw didn't trust as far as can throw didn't trust as far as can throw didn't trust as far as could throw didn't trust as far as could throw didn't trust as far as could throw didn't trust as far as could throw didn't trust as far as could throw didn't turn a hair didn't turn a hair didn't turn a hair didn't want to know didn't want to know Didn't We Just Go Through All That? Dido Dido Dido Dido and Aeneas Dido and Æneas Dido's problem didodecyl ether Didodecyl-Dimethyl Ammonium Bromide didoes didoes Didolodontidae DIDOM Didon Didon, Henri Didonia DIDOP didos Didot Didot family Didot point Didot, François Didothion DIDOV DIDP DIDP DIDR Didrachm Didrex Didrikson Didrikson, Babe Didronel DIDS DIDS-CD Didsbury Northern Hockey Club Didsbury Ultimate Frisbee for Amateurs DIDSRS DIDSS didst DIDSY DIDT DIDTETA DIDU

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Here we are treated to a reading that strives to uncover Virgil's importance for authors who read against the text of his work, as it has become fashionable to say, a Virgil that is no longer a servant to the project of Western geopolitical domination but rather an author who can be read as possessing a subtly camouflaged sympathy for the losers, the Turnuses and Didos of the world, beneath his overt triumphalism.

The Other Virgil: "Pessimistic" Readings of the Aeneid in Early ... by Blanchard, W. Scott / Renaissance Quarterly

Can anyone remember a time when the musical landscape wasn't dominated by young women, an era that pre-dates the Lilys and Amys, the Corinnes and Josses, the Kates and the Katies, the KTs and the MIAs, the Duffys as well as the Didos all clamouring for our attention?

Adele, 19 by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

Dido might have been playing across town, but with female vocalists Sia Furler and Sophie Barker behind the mic, it was like getting two Didos for the price of one.

the razz live reviews: ZERO SOUNDS TO THE FOUR; Singing quartet hit ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

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