狄多（ Dīdō，）据古希腊和古罗马史料记载，曾是古迦太基女王，迦太基城的建立者。最使她出名的当属古罗马诗人维吉尔在《埃涅阿斯纪》中的记载。埃涅阿斯与狄多相爱，但因为要去建立未来的罗马，不得不离开迦太基，狄多心碎自杀。不過根據記載埃涅阿斯與狄多相差一百年之久，因此不可能相遇。

早期记载

阿庇安《羅馬史》、維吉爾《埃涅阿斯纪》傳說從泰尔逃亡的狄多公主以用牛皮量地方式騙得北非突尼斯土地，建立希臘文為牛皮之意的畢爾莎（βύρσα）。

另见
《埃涅阿斯纪》

注释

部分参考文献
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主要资料来源
Virgil, Aeneid i.338–368
Justinus, Epitome Historiarum philippicarum Pompei Trogi xviii.4.1–6, 8

外部链接

 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.)
 Translation of Virgil's works including the Aeneid by A. S. Kline (See also Virgil and Aeneid.)
 Ovid's imagined letter from Dido to Aeneas, trans. Miceal F. Vaughan (See also Ovid.)
 Appian, The Punic Wars, chapter 1  (See also Appian.)
 Dido, Queen of Carthage , original text, modernization, and discussion of Chaucer's Legend of Dido
 The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe (and Thomas Nashe?). (See also Christopher Marlowe.)
 Commentary
 Greek Mythology Link: Dido
 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)

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