Tunisia: Dido of Carthage (TRIH ep 262)
814 BCE · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook focus on Dido (Elissa), the legendary founder-queen of Carthage, using Virgil's Aeneid as the central text while comparing alternative traditions from Greek and Roman sources. They outline Virgil's tragic portrayal—Dido's love for Aeneas, his divinely mandated departure, and her subsequent suicide and curse—and contrast it with earlier versions (Trogus, Timaeus, Menander of Ephesus) that cast Elissa as a chaste, politically motivated founder....
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Around 814 BCE
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Founding of Rome (traditional) (753 BCE)
- Upanishads composed (800 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 BCE)
- Homer (800 BCE)
- Homer's Iliad composed (750 BCE)
- Greek alphabet developed (800 BCE)
- Spring and Autumn period (771 BCE)
- Rise of the polis (750 BCE)