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Dido , 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 , 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.

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Dido In Greek and Roman legend, Phoenician princess and founder of Carthage. Carthage prospered and Dido's hand was sought by the king of Libya. To escape him she stabbed herself. Virgil made Dido a lover of Aeneas, and attributes her suicide to his decision to abandon her.

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Dido in the Aeneid, the queen and founder of Carthage, who fell in love with the shipwrecked Aeneas and killed herself when he deserted her.

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