Dido

Role: Sidonian woman · First appears: Fable 103

Life events

• Dido receives Æneas into her home and affection.(Fable103)
  • With: Æneas
  • “The Sidonian {Dido}, she who was doomed not easily to endure the loss of her Phrygian husband, received Æneas, both in her home and her affection;”
• Æneas abandons Dido.(Fable103)
  • With: Æneas
  • “He afterwards abandons her, on which she stabs herself in despair.”
• Dido stabs herself on the funeral pile.(Fable103)
  • “on the pile, too, erected under the pretext of sacred rites, she fell upon the sword;”

Fable 103

• admired: Æneas “Dido entertains Æneas in her palace, and falls in love with him.”
• with Æneas (Æneas abandons Dido.) “He afterwards abandons her, on which she stabs herself in despair.”
• courtship with Æneas “Dido entertains Æneas in her palace, and falls in love with him.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.