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Dido: Encyclopedia - Dido
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 accou...
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Dido: Encyclopedia Ii - 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...
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Dido: Encyclopedia Ii - Dido - An Alternative Viewpoint
An alternative viewpoint, based on Gerhard Herm’s interpretation (Die Phönizier), supported by selected classic sources (Virgil, Ovid,...
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Dido: Encyclopedia Ii - Dido - Continuing Tradition
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)...
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Dido: Encyclopedia Ii - Dido - Virgil's Aeneid
Virgil's back-references in his Aeneid generally agree with what Justin recorded. Virgil names Dido's father as Belus, this Belus sometim...
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Dido: Encyclopedia Ii - Dido - Later Roman Tradition
Letter 8 of Ovid's Heroides is a letter from Dido to Aeneas written just before she ascends the pyre. The situation is as in Virgil's Aen...
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