Dido

Who is Dido compared to?

Diana

Why is Dido seen to be pious?

Dido was building for Juno a huge temple

Who is Dido tricked by?

Juno and Venus

How does Juno trick Dido?

Makes everything seem like she is marrying Aeneas

How does Venus intervene with Dido?

Sends Cupid down to make Dido fall in love with Aeneas

What is Dido’s love described as?

Dido was on fire with love

Who convinces Dido to get with Aeneas?

Anna

How do we see Dido embodying Roman values?

Building a city

Good leader

Hospitable

Pious

How does Dido behave when Aeneas leaves her?

raged like a Bacchant

Who is Dido compared to when she is angry with Aeneas?

Pentheus

What happens to her city in book 4?

Towers she was building ‘ceased to rise’

Why do we sympathise with DIdo?

It wasn’t her choice mostly and she was a puppet in the gods plan

See it through her perspective so get her thoughts and feelings which make us able to understand her

What does she do before she dies?

Curses the Romans - foretells the wars between Carthage and Rome

What is the quote about Dido praying?

Dido prayed for death

What does Dido do when she sees Aeneas in the underworld?

She rushed away hating him

What does Edwards say about women?

Powerful women are the ones who die

What do feminist critiques say about women?

WOmen are collateral damage to prioritize the father-son relationship

What does Olionsis say about women?

Virgil associates women with unruly passion

What does Harrisson say about Dido?

She is highly sympathetic to a modern reader

What does she say is Aeneas’ fault?

I am hated because of you by my own people

What does she say to insult Aeneas?

You are not the son of a goddess

What does she say to curse him?

You will receive the punishment you deserve and the news of it will reach me deep among the dead