Dido (Elissa)

Semi-legendary Tyrian princess who, according to tradition, fled her brother Pygmalion's tyranny with a band of nobles and founded Carthage on the North African coast around 814 BCE; later immortalised (with considerable poetic licence) as Aeneas's doomed lover in Virgil's Aeneid.

• Lived: 850 BCE – 759 BCE
• Nationality: Phoenician
• Roles: Queen, Founder

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