Dido
BOOK 1:
“Unfortunate Dido, doomed to be the victim” sympathetic initial presentation, role of destiny:
doomed to die, leader. Tragic background, victim of the gods
Dido representation of Cleopatra, evil seducer
Might had been divinely intervened but also might not be so
“the women led the whole undertaking” give “laws and rules of conduct to her people” compared to
Diane “she was like Diana”
Kind to the trojans “do you wish to settle with me on an equal footing, even here in this kingdom of
Carthage? The city which I am founding is yours” hospitable xenia etc, quite nice tbf “through my
own suffering I am learning to help those who suffer”
Victim of the gods (Venus) still
Last paragraph of book 1 “doomed dido”
Dido Aeneas
Refugees From Tyre From Troy
Leadership role Over Carthaginians Trojans
Royalty Queen Prince
Found city Carthage Rome
Victims of gods Cupid/Venus Juno
Lost s/o Lost husband Lost wife
BOOK 4:
“Dido was on fire with love” fire and poison of Venus “infatuation”
“Cling to the couch that he had left” married Aeneas (witnesses, gifts etc) but also might not be
marriage- Aeneas doesn’t view it as marriage
“Forgetting their kingdoms and becoming the slaves of lust” each other more important that
kingdoms
“Then it was that unhappy Dido prayed for her death” “overwhelmed by grief and possessed” talks
past Aeneas and foreshadows her own death “black fires of death”
“She rages and raved round the whole city like a Bacchant” driven mad by passion almost drunk-like
Neither know each other’s situations (cupid/Dido and mercury/Aeneas)
Lost a lot because of him “because of you” speech
BOOK 1:
“Unfortunate Dido, doomed to be the victim” sympathetic initial presentation, role of destiny:
doomed to die, leader. Tragic background, victim of the gods
Dido representation of Cleopatra, evil seducer
Might had been divinely intervened but also might not be so
“the women led the whole undertaking” give “laws and rules of conduct to her people” compared to
Diane “she was like Diana”
Kind to the trojans “do you wish to settle with me on an equal footing, even here in this kingdom of
Carthage? The city which I am founding is yours” hospitable xenia etc, quite nice tbf “through my
own suffering I am learning to help those who suffer”
Victim of the gods (Venus) still
Last paragraph of book 1 “doomed dido”
Dido Aeneas
Refugees From Tyre From Troy
Leadership role Over Carthaginians Trojans
Royalty Queen Prince
Found city Carthage Rome
Victims of gods Cupid/Venus Juno
Lost s/o Lost husband Lost wife
BOOK 4:
“Dido was on fire with love” fire and poison of Venus “infatuation”
“Cling to the couch that he had left” married Aeneas (witnesses, gifts etc) but also might not be
marriage- Aeneas doesn’t view it as marriage
“Forgetting their kingdoms and becoming the slaves of lust” each other more important that
kingdoms
“Then it was that unhappy Dido prayed for her death” “overwhelmed by grief and possessed” talks
past Aeneas and foreshadows her own death “black fires of death”
“She rages and raved round the whole city like a Bacchant” driven mad by passion almost drunk-like
Neither know each other’s situations (cupid/Dido and mercury/Aeneas)
Lost a lot because of him “because of you” speech
