Henry Purcell (D.Gardiner opera)
Текст песни Dido and Aeneas (Дидона и Эней)

Дидо?на (лат. Dido), первоначальное прозвание финикийской богини Астарты; имя мифической основательницы Карфагена (Carthage - Тунис), называющейся и Элиссою.
Была влюблена в Энея, чем оскорбила память своего мужа Сихея и Креусы, жены Энея. (Упоминается Данте Алигьери в разделе Рай в «Божественной комедии».)
Покончила с собой из-за любви к Энею, бросившись на меч.

Эне?й (греч. ???????, лат. Aen??s) — в древнегреческой мифологии - герой Троянской войны из царского рода дарданов.
Cын Анхиса и Афродиты, родился на Иде.

Dido and Aeneas fall in love by the management of Juno and Venus, acting in concert though for different reasons.
When the rumour of the love affair comes to King Iarbas the Gaetulian, "a son of Jupiter Ammon by a raped Garamantian nymph", Iarbas prays to his father, blaming Dido who has scorned marriage with him yet now takes Aeneas into the country as her lord.
Jupiter dispatches Mercury to send Aeneas on his way and the pious Aeneas sadly obeys. Mercury tells Aeneas of all the promising Italian lands and orders Aeneas to get his fleet ready.

Dido can no longer bear to live.
Dido has her sister Anna build her a pyre under the pretence of burning all that reminded her of Aeneas, including weapons and clothes that Aeneas had left behind and (what she calls) their bridal bed (though, according to Aeneas, they were never officially married.)
When Dido sees Aeneas' fleet leaving she curses him and his Trojans and proclaims endless hate between Carthage and the descendants of Troy, foreshadowing the Punic Wars.
Dido ascends the pyre, lies again on the couch which she had shared with Aeneas, and then falls on a sword that Aeneas had given her.