Aeneas meets Dido. Dido was the founder and first queen of Carthage. Aeneas - his character is captioned as Eneas in this illustration - was a Trojan hero Dido fell in love with. The legendary characters were immortalized in The Aeneid by Roman poet Virgil and in the opera Dido and Aeneas by English musician Henry Purcell. From a work by an unidentified artist.

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