Drama published in:

A Bequest Unearthed, Phoenicia
Encyclopedia Phoeniciana

Drama catalogued and reviewed in:

Dido - Didon - Didone
Eine kommentierte Bibliographie zum Dido-Mythos in Literatur und Musik

Website reviewed in:

Il teatro. La voce dell'anima.

Fondazione Teatro La Fenice di Venezia

(per il ritorno della Fenicia dal suo Prospero)

con il Patrocinio di S.E. il Presidente della Repubblica Italiana

A Madame Karin and to all the Friends of Elissa

Your power has refounded the Circle of Byrsa

Read the Letter of Elissa to Aeneas

«Artis est celare artem»

   point de rupture*  -  IV   VI  -  point pas de retour

VI   IV

IX   XI

«Sidonia Dido»

*brilliant expression by Lavinie M.

«Ingratum si dixerit, omnia dicis»

"Virgil demonstrates that Aeneas is a cold-blooded killer on and off the battlefield /

/ Virgil explains the torture Aeneas has brought upon Dido /

/ Aeneas’ killing of Dido was necessary for Aeneas

to see what Virgil wanted to demonstrate to his patron, Augustus... /

/ Dido’s death, Virgil makes clear to those who did not recognize it in Book IV,

was not a suicide, but the doing of Aeneas".

De Vasquez, Dido's Murder

"...Hence the hypothesis that he (Virgil) used in his works a system of double language,

under which cover he could preserve his freedom of speech without bringing immediate punishment upon himself /

/ Proceding step by step, one discovers that other poets, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid,

express under the same cover the same hostility against Augustus and his Regime.

Naturally, the emperor largely penetrated their subtext,

but he tolerated it probably by amusement as well as by calculation.

The important thing was that these influential writers seemed to support him;

what they really said did not really matter

as long as he controlled the situation and could destroy them at any moment.

He liked to take his time and repeated at every turn: festina lente".

Maleuvre, Virgil's Murder

Would you represent Virgil as a mosquito to celebrate him?

Well, you're wrong: a powerful Emperor did it.

Two sides of the same (Augustus) coin:

To know more, consult:

"VirgilMurder", A coin speaks: M. Durmius' denarius

"VirgilMurder" by QueenDido.org: An imperial snake (Ov. Met. 3. 131-137)

Two sides of the same (Virgil) coin: