The queen of Carthage, and the woman unlucky enough to meet Aeneas. Click here if you’re looking for the full Aeneid.

Dido In the Aeneid

02.20 Dido, The Badass Queen of Carthage (The Aeneid Part 2)

Jupiter and Venus discuss Aeneas and the Trojans' fate, and it's time we meet the Carthaginians and their badass queen Dido.

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08.20 The Man, The Myth, The Legend? Aeneas (The Aeneid Part 5)

Guess who's back, back again? It's time to return to the Aeneid. Aeneas is in Carthage with its queen, Dido, and things are going well... for now.

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08.20 Dido Wonders Why She Got Out of Bed at All (The Aeneid Part 6)

The "relationship" of Dido and Aeneas continues with the affects of the love potion only increasing. Juno and Venus begin to form a plan of how to handle Carthage.

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No Earthly Ships, The Tragedy of Aeneid’s Dido (The Aeneid Part 7)

Dido's fate is determined by Aeneas's stubbornness and the far too potent love spell of Venus... Things get sad and dark for Carthage.

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Dido Beyond the Aeneid

02.20 Mini Myth: Who Let a Women Found a City?! Dido Beyond the Aeneid

There's more to Queen Dido than Virgil tells us in the Aeneid, she had a life before Aeneas came to town, if you can believe it! This mini myth covers the story of Dido's founding of Carthage outside of what is told in the Aeneid.

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09.20 Augustus’s Rome, Carthage & The History of Virgils Dido (w Ancient History Fangirl)

In this special episode devoted to even more on the queen of Carthage, Dido, Liv teams up with Genn and Jenny of Ancient History Fangirl for a rundown of why Rome "needed" so much Augustan propaganda, and what that means for the real Carthage and the mythological Dido. There are drunken elephants, loathing of Julius Caesar, gossip about Augustus's family, Cleopatra, Ovid, and of course, Dido.

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