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Stories from Virgil - Dido on the Funeral Pyre
Dido ascending the funeral pyre (or pile) in a scene from " Stories From Virgil" by the Reverend Alfred J. Church, M.A. with illustrations from the designs of BartolomeoPinelli(1781 - 1835). Published by Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, London, in 1879. Dido is the founder and first queen of Carthage in Northern Africa, and is also known as Elissa. She falls in love with Aeneas but he leaves her; in her sorrow she ascends a funeral pyre and falls onto a sword which was given to her by Aeneas. During his journey through the Underworld, Aeneas meets her shade or ghost and she shuns him
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