#dido of carthage

[notacluedo]

Dido Dido Dido

[brasideios]

Had to stop reading Book 4 of the Aeneid because:

[helianthusmiko]

How i imagined Dido and Helen when i read the Iliad and Aneid in class.

[intellego]

it makes me Feral how virgil paints dido. criticizing the gods for their inference, placing blame on them. dido’s suicide launching a generational curse, giving the carthaginians an almost divine reason outside of their own to hate rome. dido being the lucretia for carthage, sparking a war without end in her name. i just…. wow. he absolutely did not have to do that but his writing on dido fascinates me

[richo1915]

Dido brought to the Underworld

[noctilionoidea]

Ah yes, my favourite mythical women. A-reand and ditto

[pelideswhore]

cassandra and dido

cassandra—what modern development would you most like to tell the ancients about? any particular individual who would respond well/badly?

i have literally been thinking of this ever since you sent this ask and i have no idea at all. i’m probably gonna go with a computer or smth like that but tahts kinda basic lol… although showing odysseus an airplane would be pretty funny

dido—favourite non-roman/greek ancient society?

probably sumerian or babylonian and that is entirely biased because that’s where i draw my roots but whatever

[blogdemocratesjr]

No One Can See Everything by Alyssa Monks (2023) + Dido and Aeneas (Mars and Venus)

But anxious cares already seiz'd the queen: She fed within her veins a flame unseen; The hero's valor, acts, and birth inspire Her soul with love, and fan the secret fire. His words, his looks, imprinted in her heart, Improve the passion, and increase the smart.

—Virgil, The Aeneid: Book IV (trans. John Dryden)

[roseofnohr]

new game idea: cards against humanism! it’s just like cards against humanity, except the cards are all inspired by the insane shit that goes down in renaissance-era literature

[a-passing-storm]

Queen Dido <333

[zahhaxx]

dido

ty @sifix for this beautiful megara dress that has completely outshined the dress i worked on for hours last year. my dress just PALES in comparison. so pale she hasn't gone outside since the first covid lockdowns.

also thanks @birksche @heartspice @pralinesims @vibrantpixels@c-cerberus-sims-s@nords-sims @nesurii @miikocc @kijiko-sims @okruee @sugarowl @remussirion @pyxiidis @aleniksimmer

[cosplayamaradolce]

Miscellaneous video game necklace pieces I have 3D printed.

Nona's Shining Beryl from LOTRO Cassandra DeVries necklace from Perfect Dark Dido's necklace and earrings from Civ 5

[thoodleoo]

i just finished book IV of The Aeneid (tragedy of Dido) and … wow … like, understandable but why didn’t she offer to go with him and merge their kingdoms ? or find some way for them to be together ? i just think that situation could’ve been avoided but 🤷🏻

very simple answer to that: that's not the story that the aeneid is trying to tell

[trucywright]

Has anyone ever considered that Aeneas to Carthage is effectively the Trojan Horse to Troy?

Gods change the minds of mortals (gods making the Trojans accept the horse, Juppiter making Dido accept the Trojans), someone/something from an opposing group enters the city and is welcomed (given that in the future from the Aeneid we’ll have Rome v Carthage), and because of this a great city falls. And like the horse, it’s not really Aeneas doing any of this. The horse and Aeneas are really just objects being manipulated and posed by the gods.

[ancientorigins]

Dido, princess of Tyre, fled her city in fear for her life after her brother had her husband murdered. She started a new life and founded the city of Carthage, where she ruled as queen. The story of this strong and independent woman ends in yet more tragedy, and has been retold by poets, writers and artists throughout the ages.

[smol-blue-bird]

I'm sorry but I will never understand people who make different save files for all of the wacky shit they do in the sims. "Oh I have one cute suburban save and one save for challenges and another save for historical—" No. The entire point of the Sims is building a palace of ancient Roman mermaids right next to your four-story apartment building filled with glitched-out half-vampire wizard hybrids and medieval alien princesses. If your entire game isn't filled with badly-made historical figures and movie characters autonomously killing each other with mods, what are you even doing?