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Where did Dido and Aeneas meet?
In Carthage.
When was Dido last seen?
We last see Dido when she kills herself from the grief of Aeneas leaving Carthage at the end of book 4.
Why did Dido the Queen of Carthage kill herself?
Dido was abandoned by Aeneas, as Mercury told Aeneas that he must travel to Italy and leave Dido, as Mercury reminds Aeneas that Dido is not part of his fate. Dido proceeds to kill herself out of sorrow by stabbing herself with an "ensis" (sword).
Where did Aeneas go on his Trojan adventure?
carthage
What is the story Aeneas?
Aeneas was a Trojan noble (husband of Hector's sister Creusa); he was the son of Aphrodite and a Trojan man named Anchises. When the city was sacked, he and his father escaped and sailed to Carthage, where the queen (Dido, formerly known as Elissa) fell in love with him; after Aeneas sailed for Italy, she leapt from onto a pyre and killed herself. Once in Italy, Aeneas joined in a war with the tribe of the Latins, married the king's daughter Lavinia, and became the king of Italy. His descendants were Romulus and Remus, who were the legendary first kings of Rome. Incidentally, another descendant of Aeneas'- Brutus, his great-grandson- became a king of Britain.
