Aeneas recounting the
Trojan War to Dido, a painting by
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. This scene is taken from Virgil's
Aeneid, where Dido falls in love with, and is betrayed by, the Trojan hero
Aeneas.
The name Elissa is probably a Greek rendering of the
Phoenician Elishat (
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