"Dido and Aeneas" is Virgil’s story of Queen Dido of Carthage, who falls in love with the Trojan hero Aeneas but is abandoned ...
Federico Barrocci’s 1598 painting Aeneas’ Flight from Troy Troy IX (ca. 85 B.C.-500 A.D.) In 85 B.C., the Roman general Gaius Flavius Fimbra sacked Troy, destroying much of the city.