Complex sentence: In the Aeneid, Virgil gives a tale of how Queen Dido of Carthage-which had become a prosperous kingdom under her rule-meets the Trojan hero Aeneas who himself has fled the sack of Troy with a small band of Trojans to settle in the west.
Split into simpler sentences: In the Aeneid, Virgil recounts how Dido, the Carthaginian queen, met the Trojan hero Aeneas in Carthage, which had become a prosperous kingdom under her rule. Aeneas had fled the sack of Troy with a small band of Trojans to settle in the West.