"Dido and Aeneas"
1894 Wood Engraving by Ferdinand Keller
This wonderful Engraving is over 100 years old.
It comes from a very rare Art Journal dated 1894.
AENEAS, in Greek mythology, a Trojan, son of Anchises and Aphrodite.
After the fall of Troy he escaped, bearing his aged father on his back. He stayed at Carthage
with Queen Dido, then went to Italy, where his descendants founded Rome. The deeds of Aeneas are the substance of the great Roman epic, the Aeneid of Vergil.
DIDO, in Roman mythology, queen of Carthage, also called Elissa. She was the daughter of a
King of Tyre. After her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband, she fled to Libya, where
she founded and ruled Carthage. According to one legend, Dido threw herself on a burning
pyre to escape marriage to the king of Libya. In the Aeneid, Vergil tells how she fell in love with Aeneas, who had been shipwrecked at Carthage, and destroyed herself on the pyre when, at Jupiter's command, he left to continue his journey to Italy.
