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Dido

Founder of Carthage

CivilizationCarthaginian
Century9th c. BC
PeriodFoundation
RoleQueen
DeathSuicide
LegacyCultural

Dido was a Carthaginian queen active in the 9th c. BC during the Foundation period. Took his own life.

Historical Note

Phoenician queen who fled Tyre to found Carthage. In Virgil's Aeneid, she takes her own life on a pyre after Aeneas abandons her.

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