In Greek and Roman sources Dido or Elissa appears as the founder and first Queen of Carthage in Tunisia. She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid. Dido - Early accounts. The person of Elissa can be traced back at least to lost writings of the historian Timaeus of Tauromenium in Sicily (c. 356–260 BC) as referred to and used by later sources. Timaeus dated the foundation of Carthage to 814 BC (or 813 Including:

• Dido - Early accounts
• Dido - Virgil's Aeneid
• Dido - Later Roman tradition
• Dido - Continuing tradition
• Dido - An alternative viewpoint
• Dido - Selected bibliography

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Dido, Dido - Early accounts, Dido - Virgil's Aeneid, Dido - Later Roman tradition, Dido - Continuing tradition, Dido - An alternative viewpoint, Dido - Selected bibliography

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In the Divine Comedy Dante sees the shade of Dido in the second circle of Hell, where she is condemned (on account of her consuming lust) to be blasted for eternity in a fierce whirlwind. The story of Dido and Aeneas remained popular throughout the post-Renaissance era, and was the basis for the eponymous 1689 opera by Henry Purcell. Remembrance of the story of the bull's hide and the foundation of Carthage is preserved in mathematics in connection with the Isoperimetric problem which is sometimes called Dido's Problem (and sim ...

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Dido, Dido - Early accounts, Dido - Virgil's Aeneid, Dido - Later Roman tradition, Dido - Continuing tradition, Dido - An alternative viewpoint, Dido - Selected bibliography

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The person of Elissa can be traced back at least to lost writings of the historian Timaeus of Tauromenium in Sicily (c. 356–260 BC) as referred to and used by later sources. Timaeus dated the foundation of Carthage to 814 BC (or 813 BC) but he also placed the founding of Rome in the same year which suggests legend had been at work. Other historians gave other dates, both for the foundation of Carthage and the foundation of Rome. Appian in the beginning of his Punic ...

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Dido, Dido - Early accounts, Dido - Virgil's Aeneid, Dido - Later Roman tradition, Dido - Continuing tradition, Dido - An alternative viewpoint, Dido - Selected bibliography

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Elissa could refer to: Dido, the queen of Carthage in Greek mythology. Elissa, a Lebanese singer. Elissa, a historic sailing ship anchored in Galveston Bay. Other related archivesCarthage, Dido, Elissa, Galveston Bay, Greek mythology, Lebanese, sailing ship

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Pygmalion may refer to the following: Pygmalion, a king of Tyre, brother of Queen Dido of Carthage. Pygmalion, Cyprus, a mythical king of Cyprus, father of Metharme, grandfather of Adonis. Pygmalion, a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw. The mythological sculptor Pygmalion who falls in love with a statue he has made, from a poem by the roman poet Ovid. In Virgil's masterpiece The Aeneid, Pygmalion is the cruel-hearted brother of Dido who secretly kills Dido's husband Sychaeu ...

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Centuries: 10th century BC - 9th century BC - 8th century BC Decades: 860s BC 850s BC 840s BC 830s BC 820s BC - 810s BC - 800s BC 790s BC 780s BC 770s BC 760s BC 810s BC - Events and trends. 817 BC - Pedubastis I declares himself king of Egypt, founding the Twenty-third Dynasty. 814 BC - Carthage founded by Dido (traditional date) 811 BC - Adad-nirari III succeeds his father Shamshi-Adad V as king of Assyria. 810s BC - Significant pe ...

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Faithless are a UK group of musicians whose music is described by one of their band as a cross between trip-hop and dance. Their songs include "God is a DJ", "Reverence" (reaching #10 in the UK), "Insomnia" (reaching #3), "Salva Mea" (reaching #9 as a remix), "We Come 1" (also reaching #3) and "One Step Too Far" (featuring Dido, Rollo's sister, reaching #6). The four original members of Faithless were Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss, Jamie Catto and Rollo. Jamie Catto left after their second album, Sunday 8PM. For No Roots, Faithless were joined by LSK. Rollo also acted as producer for the second half of ...

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• Faithless - Discography
• Faithless - Albums
• Faithless - Singles
• Faithless - Other appearances

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Originally based on Nahum Tate's own play Brutus of Alba, or The Enchanted Lovers (1678). The opera is likely, at least to some extent, allegorical. The prologue refers to the joy of a marriage between two monarchs, which could refer to the marriage between William and Mary after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In a poem of about 1686 Tate himself alluded to James II as Aeneas, who is misled by the evil machinations of the Sorceress and her witches (representing Roman Catholicism, a common metaphor at the time) into abandoning Dido, who symbolizes the British people. The same ...

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Dido and Aeneas, Dido and Aeneas - Characters, Dido and Aeneas - The Libretto, Dido and Aeneas - The Score

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Dido singer - Albums. ODDS&ENDS - 1995/1996 - (Promo album with 11 tracks) No Angel - June 1999 - (#1 UK; #4 US - 4x Platinum; #1 AUS - 9 x Platinum)(WW Sales: 13.5 Million) Life For Rent - September 2003 - (#1 UK; #4 US - 3x Platinum; AUS #1 5x Platinum) (WW Sales: 8.5 Million) Total Album Sales: 22 Million [1] Dido singer - Singles. Guest appearance on The Marshall Mathers LP (Eminem album): "Stan" (Eminem featuring D ...

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Dido singer, Dido singer - Discography, Dido singer - Albums, Dido singer - Singles, Dido singer - DVD, Dido singer - Trivia

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Dido Also Elissa. Queen of Carthage in North Africa and traditionally its founder. According to Timaeus, her actual name was Theiosso, in Phoenician Helissa or Elissa; and Dido, the Phoenician equivalent of the Greek planes (wanderer), was given her because of her wanderings;

Dido is also said to be the name of a Phoenician goddess and can be translated "the beloved." After her husband was killed by her brother, Dido fled to Africa and founded a city which became Carthage. Rather than marry a local chieftain against her will, she killed herself; in the Aeneid she is said to have killed herself after being deserted by Aeneas.

Dido was "the patroness of the Phoenician mariners; and together with Venus and other lunar goddesses -- the moon having such a strong influence over the tides -- was the 'Virgin of the Sea.'. . . the Phoenicians, those bold explorers of the 'deep,' carried, fixed on the prow of their ships, the image of the goddess Astart�, who is Elissa, Venus Erycina of Sicily, and Dido, whose name is the feminine of David" (IU 2:446&n).

(See also: Dido, Elissa, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

In World War II, the ships of this class saw much action, including the battle of Cape Matapan, the battle of Okinawa, Operation Overlord, Operation Torch and the Second Battle of Sirte, as well as many other duties in the Mediterranean and Pacific, though it must be said that the Didos saw even more service than is mentioned here. The class lost a number of ships during the war. These were Bonaventure, Charybdis, Hermione, Naiad, Scylla and Spartan. The post-war survivors continued in service ...

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Dido class cruiser, Dido class cruiser - Armament, Dido class cruiser - Service, Dido class cruiser - Ship modifications, Dido class cruiser - Didos, Dido class cruiser - Bellonas

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The success of No Angel was spurred on by her appearance with Eminem on the track of his The Marshall Mathers LP released in 2000. The Marshall Mathers LP reached number one on the US and Canadian charts. Dido appeared in the video for "Stan" with featured the music for her song "Thank You" and Stan was nominated for a Grammy for the track. While the song only reached number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, it went to number one in the UK and Australia and was a worldwide hit. However, Dido did not sing with Eminem ...

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No Angel, No Angel - Worldwide success, No Angel - Track listing, No Angel - See Also

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Ovid then tells that Anna Perenna was the same Anna who appears in Virgil's Aeneid as Dido's sister and that after Dido's death, Carthage was attacked by the Numidians and Anna was forced to flee. Eventually Anna ended up in ship which happened to be driven by a storm right to Aeneas' settlement of Lavinium. Aeneas invited her to stay, but his wife Lavinia became jealous. But Anna, warned in a dream by Dido's spirit, escaped whatever Lavinia was planning by rushing off into the night and falling into the river Numicus and drowning. Ae ...

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Anna Perenna, Anna Perenna - Origin, Anna Perenna - Cult

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Dido class cruiser - Didos. Bonaventure completed with only four twin 5.25in turrets because of shortages, and received a 4-inch starshell gun in X position. She had received a radar set before October 1940, but was otherwise unaltered. Naiad completed with five turrets. She received five single 20 mm in September 1941 and had radar Type 279 by this time. Phoebe completed with four turrets and was fitted with a 4-inch in Q position forward of the bridge. The latter was la ...

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Dido class cruiser, Dido class cruiser - Armament, Dido class cruiser - Service, Dido class cruiser - Ship modifications, Dido class cruiser - Didos, Dido class cruiser - Bellonas

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The class were intended to be armed with ten 5.25-inch (133 mm) guns in five twin turrets, but a shortage of the guns, due to difficulties in manufacturing them, led to the first group being armed with eight 5.25-inch guns in four twin turrets. The fifth twin turret was added later to Dido only. The first group was also armed with a single 4-inch (102 mm) gun and two quadruple 2-pounder (40 mm) pom-pom. The second group had the full five twin 5.25-inch guns but did not have the single 4 in (102 mm) gun added. The third group's ...

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Dido class cruiser, Dido class cruiser - Armament, Dido class cruiser - Service, Dido class cruiser - Ship modifications, Dido class cruiser - Didos, Dido class cruiser - Bellonas

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Since early 2004, she has been recording material in Los Angeles, London and Stockholm with leading producers such as Steve Robson (Natasha Bedingfield, Natalie Imbruglia), the Location Crew (Dido, Christina Aguilera and Soulpower (Christina Milian, Brandy). "Pointless Relationship" was produced by A-Side Productions, who have also worked with Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson. Sursok's debut album is set for release in early 2005. "Pointless Relationship" reached number 5 in the ARIA charts at its peak and stayed in the ARIA Top 40 for 15 weeks. "Pointless Re ...

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Tammin Sursok, Tammin Sursok - Biography, Tammin Sursok - Music Career, Tammin Sursok - Discography

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In approximately 814 BC, Carthage was founded by Phoenician settlers from the city of Tyre, bringing with them the city-god Melqart. Traditionally, the city was founded by Dido (or Elissa) (Dido fled from Tyre after her younger brother killed her husband to become the ruler), and a number of foundation myths have survived through Greek and Roman literature. (See Byrsa for one example.) In 509 BC a treaty was signed between Carthage and Rome indicating a division of influence and commercial activities. It is the first known source that indicated Cart ...

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Carthage, Carthage - Founding of Carthage, Carthage - Life in Carthage, Carthage - Carthaginian Commerce, Carthage - Carthaginian Government, Carthage - Carthaginian Religious Practices, Carthage - Conflict with the Greeks and Romans, Carthage - First Sicilian War, Carthage - Second Sicilian War, Carthage - Third Sicilian War, Carthage - Pyrrhus of Epirus, Carthage - The Messanan Crisis, Carthage - The Punic Wars, Carthage - Roman Carthage, Carthage - Carthage in fiction

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White Flag – about a past relationship. Dido "regretted writing it" to begin with because of the further problems it caused with that person but now enjoys performing the song. Life for Rent – written to reflect how she saw her life at the time. Mary's in India – a joke for childhood best friend Mary who now lives in India, originally not intended to be on the album. See You When You're 40 – about a past boyfriend who "wanted to be different more than anything in the world." Don't Leave Home – written about the difficulties of drug addiction and made as ...

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Life for Rent, Life for Rent - Track listing, Life for Rent - Released singles, Life for Rent - Song backgrounds, Life for Rent - External link

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The classification of the Northeast Caucasian languages has undergone some reorganization in recent years. The following tree is a typical recent proposal, based on the work of linguist Bernard Comrie and others. Population data is from Ethnologue 15th ed. Northeast Caucasian languages - Nakh family. Spoken in Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Georgia. Chechen and Ingush are official languages of their respective republics. Batsbi (Bats) (3400 speakers) Veinakh languages Chechen (955,00 ...

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Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian languages - Linguistic features, Northeast Caucasian languages - Language classification, Northeast Caucasian languages - Nakh family, Northeast Caucasian languages - Avar-Andi family, Northeast Caucasian languages - Tsez Dido family, Northeast Caucasian languages - Lak isolate, Northeast Caucasian languages - Dargi Dargin dialect continuum, Northeast Caucasian languages - Khinalug Xinalug isolate, Northeast Caucasian languages - Lezgian family, Northeast Caucasian languages - Connections to other families, Northeast Caucasian languages - North Caucasian family, Northeast Caucasian languages - Connections to Hurrian and Urartian, Northeast Caucasian languages - Agricultural vocabulary

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