Complex sentence: The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's "Aeneid", and recounts the love story of Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair at his abandonment of her.
Split into simpler sentences: The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's "Aeneid". It recounts the love story of Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair at his abandonment of her.