- Source: Dido (Ratu Kartago)
Dalam sumber Yunani dan Roman Dido merupakan sebagai pendiri dan ratu pertama Kartago (pada hari modern Tunisia). Dia menjadi yang terkenal untuk cerita yang cenderung oleh syair Roman Virgil di Aeneid. Dalam sumber mereka, lebih dikenal dengan Elissa.
Nama Elissa diambil dari nama Bangsa Fenisia Elishat. Nama Dido, kebanyakan digunakan oleh penulis latin. Nama Elissa lebih dikenal di Kartago.
Bibiliografi pilihan
H. Akbar Khan, "Doctissima Dido": Etymology, Hospitality and the Construction of a Civilized Identity, 2002.
E.B. Atwood, Two Alterations of Virgil in Chaucer’s Dido, 1938.
S. Conte, Dido sine veste, 2005.
R. S. Conway, The Place of Dido in History, 1920.
F. Della Corte, La Iuno-Astarte virgiliana, 1983.
G. De Sanctis, Storia dei Romani, 1916.
R.J. Edgeworth, "The Death of Dido." The Classical Journal 72.2 (1977) 129-33.
M. Fantar, Carthage, la prestigieuse cité d'Elissa, 1970.
L. Foucher, Les Phéniciens à Carthage ou la geste d'Elissa, 1978.
Michael Grant, Roman Myths, 1973.
M. Gras/P. Rouillard/J. Teixidor, L'univers phénicien, 1995.
H.D. Gray, Did Shakespeare write a tragedy of Dido?, 1920.
G. Herm, Die Phönizier, 1974.
T. Kailuweit, Dido - Didon - Didone. Eine kommentierte Bibliographie zum Dido-Mythos in Literatur und Musik, 2005.
R.C. Ketterer, The perils of Dido: sorcery and melodrama in Vergil’s Aeneid IV and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, 1992.
R.H. Klausen, Aeneas und die Penaten, 1839.
G. Kowalski, De Didone graeca et latina, 1929.
F.N. Lees, Dido Queen of Carthage and The Tempest, 1964.
J.-Y. Maleuvre, Contre-Enquête sur la mort de Didon, 2003.
J.-Y. Maleuvre, La mort de Virgile d’après Horace et Ovide, 1993;
L. Mangiacapre, Didone non è morta, 1990.
P.E. McLane, The Death of a Queen: Spencer's Dido as Elizabeth, 1954.
O. Meltzer, Geschichte der Karthager, 1879.
A. Michel, Virgile et la politique impériale: un courtisan ou un philosophe?, 1971.
S. Moscati, Chi furono i Fenici. Identità storica e culturale di un popolo protagonista dell'antico mondo mediterraneo, 1992.
R. Neuse, Book VI as Conclusion to The Faerie Queene, 1968.
A. Parry, The Two Voices of Virgil's Aeneid, 1963.
G.K. Paster, Montaigne, Dido and The Tempest: “How Came That Widow In?, 1984.
B. Schmitz, Ovide, In Ibin: un oiseau impérial, 2004;
E. Stampini, Alcune osservazioni sulla leggenda di Enea e Didone nella letteratura romana, 1893.
Pranala luar
Selected English texts (Alternate links found in Wikipedia entries for the respective authors.)
Forum Romanum: Justin 18.3f (Contains Justin (18.3–6) relating the early story of Elissa in full.)
A. S. Kline's translation of Virgil's works including the Aeneid Diarsipkan 2004-06-06 di Wayback Machine. (See also Virgil and Aeneid.)
Ovid's imagined letter from Dido to Aeneas, trans. Miceal F. Vaughan Diarsipkan 2007-04-06 di Wayback Machine. (See also Ovid.)
Appian, The Punic Wars, chapter 1 (See also Appian.)
Dido, Queen of Carthage Diarsipkan 1999-09-01 di Wayback Machine., original text, modernization, and discussion of Chaucer's Legend of Dido
The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe (and Thomas Nashe?) Diarsipkan 2004-06-19 di Wayback Machine.. (See also Christopher Marlowe.)
Commentary
Greek Mythology Link: Dido
Phoenicia: Elissar, Dido, the Queen of Carthage and her city
Queen Dido: Didone Liberata (Mostly about a new four-act play by Salvatore Conte; it contains also a confutation of the well-known suicide into a subjective vision of Aeneas and his "comites" - 4.664, followed by Dido's catabasis)
