Legendary Queen of Carthage who fell tragically in love with Aeneas;".....a dowdy"?

Question

Legendary Queen of Carthage who fell tragically in love with Aeneas;".....a dowdy"?

Answer 1

Dido?

Answer 2

Dido was Phoenician princess that founded the city of Carthage around 900-850 BC. Aeneas lived around 1150 BC, so they probably never met from the beginning.

Again, it was said that Aeneas fathered Romulus and Remus who found Rome in 753 BC...that's nonesense.

Answer 3

The classical figure of Dido was the founder and first Queen of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia). The name Dido, used mostly by Latin writers, seems to be a Phoenician form meaning "Wanderer."

Answer 4

Do you mean Dido?

Answer 5

do you mean a dowry?

Answer 6

Aeneas had a year long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido (also known as Elissa) , who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign jointly over their peoples. Once again, this was in favour of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans' descendants. However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, thus compelling him to leave secretly and continue on his way. When Dido learned of this, she ordered her sister Anna to construct a pyre, she said, to get rid of Aeneas' possessions, left behind by him in his haste to leave. Standing on it, Dido uttered a curse that would forever pit Carthage against Rome. She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met and falling on the pyre. Anna reproached the mortally-wounded Dido. Meanwhile, Juno, looking down on the tragedy and moved by Dido's plight, sent Iris to make Dido's passage to Hades quicker and less painful. When Aeneas later travelled to Hades, he called to her ghost but she neither spoke nor acknowledged him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas

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