: Dido was a Phoenician princess who fled her home in Tyre (modern-day Lebanon) after her brother, King Pygmalion, murdered her husband to seize his wealth.
: She arrived on the coast of North Africa and famously negotiated for land, asking for only as much as could be covered by an ox hide. In a brilliant move, she cut the hide into thin strips to encircle a large hill, where she built her new city, Carthage . Amorf Dido
: Her story reached its peak in Virgil's Aeneid , where she fell in love with the Trojan hero Aeneas. When Aeneas left her to fulfill his destiny of founding Rome, a heartbroken Dido cursed him and his descendants before taking her own life. Musical Context : Dido was a Phoenician princess who fled