Queen Dido and Aeneas

In the Aeneid, Virgil shows that Queen Dido, already a widow, founded the city of Birsa, later was called Carthage. One day she received Aeneas, after his shipwreck, and fell in love with him. Their long period of intimacy ended when Jupiter sent Hermes to remind Aeneas that he should go to the Italian Peninsula. With the grief of separation Dido stabbed and threw herself into the funeral pyre that she had prepared.

Virgílio indica na Eneida que a rainha Dido, já viúva, fundou a cidade de Birsa que posteriormente se chamou Cartago. Certo dia recebeu Eneias após o seu naufrágio e apaixonou-se por ele. Muitos meses de convívio terminaram porque Júpiter enviou Hermes para lembrar Eneias que devia dirigir-se à península Itálica. Com o desgosto da separação Dido apunhala-se e atira-se para a pira funerária que preparara.

Francesco Solimena (1657-1747)-'Dido receiving Aeneas and Cupid disguised as Ascanius'-oil on canvas-1720 London-National Gallery

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774-1833)-'Aeneas tells Dido the misfortunes of the Trojan city'-oil on canvas-1815 Paris-Musée du Louvre

Jean Raoux (1677-1734)-'Dido and Aeneas'-oil on canvas-ca 1730 Canberra-National Gallery of Australia

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the elder (1722-1789)-'Dido and Aeneas escape to a cave before the thunderstorm'-oil on canvas-1757 Private collection

Thomas Hampson Jones (1743-1803)-'landscape with Dido and Aeneas-oil on canvas