Aeneas and Dido, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1815. Credit: Public domain Princess Dido of Carthage was similar to Aeneas in many respects. She, too, was from a royal family from the Near East. She was ...
Purcell (1659-1695) was a composer from the Baroque period of music. He and his librettist, Nahum Tate, based Dido and Aeneas on Book IV of the Aeneid by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.