#dont attack my precious aeneas and dido

[uritur-infelix]

Do you ever think about how Dido and Aeneas are really just literary foils of one another. Like, both characters are refugees trying to defend and support their respective peoples, even if it means colonising the land of other nations, both are manipulated by the gods and, unsurprisingly, both are utterly suicidal because of it, to say nothing of the crushing burden of the duty of leadership.