Dido
Queen of Carthage

Other names: Elissa (Phoenician)^[15]

Daughter of Mutto, King of Tyre; sister of Pygmalion, King of Tyre, and of Anna Perenna.^[H45]
After her husband-uncle Sichaeus/Acerbas/Sicharbas was killed by her brother Pygmalion, she fled to the coast of Africa where she purchased land on which she founded Carthage.^[15]
King Hiarbas demanded her hand in marriage, but she killed herself on a funeral pyre.^[15]
She was worshipped in Carthage as a divinity.^[15]
According to Virgil, she fell in love with Aeneas after his arrival in Africa, but he abandoned her and she killed herself on a funeral pyre.^[15]