Dido, the widowed queen of Carthage, falls in love with Aeneas after he is driven to her kingdom by a storm. Although Aeneas returns her affection, the gods remind him that his destiny is to found a new people in Italy. After he departs, Dido dies by suicide, making her story one of the poem’s most tragic episodes.
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