Characters in the Aeneid >Dido
Dido is the queen of Carthage who welcomes Aeneas and his companions when they land on her shores. She has an affair with Aeneas and then when she learns that he is deserting her, she commits a very memorable suicide.
Dido and Aeneas were pawns in the hands of the goddesses Juno and Venus, but that doesn't make Aeneas' stealthy desertion any more tolerable. Dido had resisted the advances of men with greater stature, but she'd settled on Aeneas, unfortunately and perhaps unwisely, although with the gods casting spells it takes more than wisdom to see clearly.
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