Comment on Virgil’s portrayal of Dido as a tragic heroine. Or Comment on the role and character of Dido in Virgil’s The Aeneid.

 

Comment on Virgil’s portrayal of Dido as a tragic heroine. 

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Comment on the role and character of Dido in Virgil’s The Aeneid.

Dido, the Phoenician Queen in Virgil's The Aeneid, is a tragic character who is a victim of the will of the gods. Enchanted by the god Amor, Dido becomes hopelessly enamored with Aeneas and abandons all else in her great passion. Her former pietas disappears as she thinks only of her husband and lets her city stand in disarray, allowing her great love to consume her every thought. When the gods again intervene and command Aeneas to continue his quest, Dido, who sacrificed her pietas and reputation for love of Aeneas, turns into a figure of fury as she realizes Aeneas has to desert her. By the will of the gods Dido, the former epitome of admirable pietas, loses all in her passion and becomes a figure maddened with great and self-destructive fury.

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