Dido Aeneas

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Dido, queen of Carthage, gives her whole heart to the wandering Aeneas, who leaves her at the gods' command to go and found Rome; she builds a pyre and dies upon his sword, cursing his people to the end of time. The lover abandoned for duty and destiny — sister to Ariadne and Medea, left weeping on the shore. — Roman epic