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Monday, February 21, 2011

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Dido (Queen of Carthage) 











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.


Dido (pronounced /ˈdaɪdoʊ/ DY-doh) was, according to ancient Greek and Roman sources, the founder and first Queen of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia). She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid. In some sources she is also known as Elissa (pronounced /iːˈlɪsə/ ee-LISS).


The name Elissa is probably a Greek rendering of the Phoenician Elishat (

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