Description:
Dido, queen of Carthage, is inflamed by love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, and their 'marriage' is consummated in a cave during a hunt. However, Jupiter sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his duty, and the hero departs despite Dido's passionate pleas. Dido commits suicide.
Brief description: Keith Maclennan was Head of Classics at Rugby School, UK, and was editor of books I, IV and VI of Virgil's Aeneid, also published by Bloomsbury. He was also author of Horace, a Poet for a New Age (2010), and co-editor of Plautus' Aulularia (2016).