dido

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The story of the first Carthaginian queen, Dido, was co-opted by the Roman poet Virgil, whose hero, Aeneas, spurns her.

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A senior lecturer at Cardiff University, Ms. MacDonald opens with the historical Dido, who seems to have been born in the ninth century B.C. in the city of Tyre, in present-day Lebanon.

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Her name wasn’t Dido but Elishat, transcribed by the ancient Greeks as Elissa.

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We can only guess how the Romans came to call her Dido; Ms. MacDonald supposes it was an epithet meaning “the wanderer.”

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The pre-Virgilian sources suggest that Dido’s brother, Pygmalion, killed her husband and usurped the throne.

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