Dido
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- proper noun
- Literature
- So we've got the famous story of Dido and Aeneas.
- Dido and Aeneas
- Dido's Carthage
- Dido's love
Examples
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Aeneas is resigned to leaving but thinks of Dido, who arrives and asks what all the fuss is about.
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Aeneas leaves, Dido awakens to find herself abandoned, and rails at the faithless Aeneas.
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Aeneas tries to explain that he is caught between two duties, but Dido does not buy this line and leaves him.
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Her handmaidens are trying to comfort Dido, who pines for her friend, Aeneas.
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Jupiter arrives and informs everyone that Dido is, in fact, now a goddess, and the Carthaginians rejoice once more.
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To create such an encounter, I start the semester with an aural analysis of "Dido's Lament" from Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas.
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In Virgil's epic, Dido falls in love with Aeneas, leading to her tragic fate.
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Queen Dido, the founder of Carthage, is known for her beautiful but doomed love story with Aeneas.
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After Aeneas departs, Dido is heartbroken and takes drastic actions in despair.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dido is the name the Romans used for a Phoenician queen originally called Elissa, who in the old story 'Aeneid' founded Carthage and died after a tragic love affair. So, Dido now refers to that famous, tragic queen from ancient stories.