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Dido at the Extremes: Vergil's Tragic Heroine as Victim of and Terror to Rome

In the learning of Vergil`s The Aeneid, Dido is a bit of a divisive character.Scholars are all over the map in their interpretations of this first king of Carthage, a woman whose intimate relationship with the Trojan hero Aeneas delays, for a good year, his travel to Italy and the inevitable introduction of Rome.

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Queen Dido falls for him, and in doing so condemns herself, since he is driven onby divine whims, and Rome isn't going to establish itself. Gods' plans aren't something mortals candisrupt in this unfinished work that ends abrupt-" The Aeneid has been facetiously called a spinoff or even fanfiction of The Iliad-it takes a side character from The Iliad and makes him a central character.