Dido

Japanese: ディド（英語表記）Dido

She is said to have founded Carthage and was also incorporated into Roman legends. She was a princess of Tyre in Phoenicia, also known as Elissa. After her husband was killed by her brother Pygmalion, who succeeded her father, she fled to Africa, where she was promised land by the natives, the size of which was the size of a single cowhide, and by cutting the hide into strips, she acquired a vast territory, founded Carthage, and became its ruler. In the old version of the legend, she was proposed to by the local king, and to remain faithful to her first husband, she built a pile of wood and burned herself to death on it. However, in the Roman legend sung in Virgil's Aeneid, she fell in love with Aeneas, who was shipwrecked and stopped in Carthage on his voyage from Troy to Italy, and when Aeneas abandoned her and set sail, she burned herself to death in despair.

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Japanese:

カルタゴを創建したとされる女王で，ローマの伝説にも取入れられた。フェニキアのテュルの王女で，別名をエリッサともいったが，父の死後その跡を継いだ弟のピグマリオンによって夫を殺されてアフリカに逃れ，土地の先住民から，牛の皮1枚に入るだけの土地をもらう約束をして，皮を細紐に切って広大な領地を手に入れ，カルタゴを建設し，その支配者となった。伝説の古形では，このあと彼女は土地の王の求婚を受け，最初の夫に対する貞節を守るため，たきぎの山を築いてその上で焼死をとげたとされていたが，ウェルギリウスの『アエネイス』に歌われたローマの伝説では，彼女はトロイからイタリアヘ向う航海の途中，難破してカルタゴに立寄ったアイネイアスと恋に落ち，アイネイアスが彼女を捨てて船出すると，絶望し焼死したとされる。

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