Dido
deity water Carthage single tradition · 2
Dido is a character based on books 1, 2 and 4 of The Aeneid. In this version, Dido steals Aeneas's oars, preventing him from leaving.
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When
- Attested period
- 1926 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Adonism was founded in 1926.
Relationships
- enemy of
- Aeneas
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Dido is based on books 1, 2 and 4 of The Aeneid, but the author makes several deviations from this material. Pigman draws attention to how imitators 'exploit... the historical distance between a text and its model', leading to 'crucial departures from, sometimes criticisms of, the model'.”
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“before going on to give birth to two more children, a benevolent son named Adonis and a daughter called Dido.”
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