Queen Dido Founded A Prosperous City Of Carthage

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The oldest story about Dido was written by Timaeus, an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 3rd century BC. Dido’s original name, ‘Elissa’, is related to El, the remote Phoenician creator god.

From the earliest stories about Dido, we learn that she was the daughter of the King of Tyre (a city in what is now Lebanon), and that she was married to Acerbas, a priest of Hercules.

Unfortunately, her husband was killed by her own brother, Pygmalion, and Dido decided to leave her native Tyre, secretly with all her dead husband’s treasures. Elissa, best known as Dido ("the wanderer"), gathered a group of rich Phoenicians and set out on a journey. At last, after long wandering, they went first to Cyprus, and then to the north coast of Africa, in the place now known as Tunisia. They landed on the coast of the Mediterranean, in the gulf where Utica stood.

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