{i} queen of Carthage (Roman Mythology); singer born on December 25th 1971 in London (England)
in ancient Roman stories, the queen of Carthage who loved Aeneas, and who killed herself when he left her Aeneid, the. In Greek legend, the founder of Carthage. She fled to North Africa after the murder of her husband and bought land from a local chieftain, Iarbas. She killed herself rather than marry him. Virgil altered the story in his Aeneid, in which Dido welcomes Aeneas to Carthage during his travels, becomes his lover, and kills herself when he abandons her
(Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas