Dido

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.18 Dido

  Queen of Carthage (Elissa) who died on Aeneas's sword when he sailed; her letter to him is in the Heroides.

• The Loves §2.18 Elissa

  Dido of Carthage under her other name; dutiful Aeneas 'has written back to wretched Elissa.'

• The Art of Love §3.2 Elissa

  Elissa (Dido), queen of Carthage, whom her 'pious' guest Aeneas left, giving the sword and the cause of her death.

• The Heroides §7 Elissa

  Dido's Phoenician name; the queen of Carthage and speaker, who will take her own life when Aeneas sails.

• The Heroides §7 Dido

  Queen and founder of Carthage, widow of Sychaeus, who loved Aeneas and is abandoned by him. The speaker.

• Metamorphoses §14.433 Sidonian woman

  Dido, queen of Carthage, of Sidonian (Phoenician) stock; received Aeneas, then killed herself on a pyre when he sailed on. Ovid compresses Aeneid 4 into two lines.

• The Cure for Love §2 Dido

  Queen of Carthage who killed herself when Aeneas sailed for Italy; the type of the abandoned lover destroyed by love.