How do Aeneas and Dido fall in love?

Aeneas and his men arrive in Carthage. Venus has covered Aeneas in a mist.

Dido tells Aeneas' men that they can stay in Carthage, and says she wishes she could meet Aeneas.

The cloud vanishes from Aeneas, and Venus makes his handsome. Dido leads him to her palace and says he can stay.

Venus decides to make Cupid infect Dido with love, disguised in the form of Ascanius.

Cupid goes to sit on Dido's lap, and infects her with love.

Dido asks Aeneas all about the Trojan war and how he arrives in Carthage, and is infatuated with him.

BOOK 2: Aeneas tells Dido the story of the Trojan war.

At the start of Book 2, Dido is madly in love with Aeneas.

N.B: It was Juno, with the help of Aolus, who caused the storm that meant Aeneas and his crew got shipwrecked of Carthage

The gods

Dido herself

Aeneas

Who could be to blame?

Dido confides in Anna about her feelings for Aeneas and her worry that she never wanted to marry again. Anna advises her to marry Aeneas.

Juno and Venus device a plan to make sure that Dido and Aeneas marry.

Juno wants Aeneas to stay in Carthage, whilst Venus is concerned for his safety and wants him to be welcomed.

When Aeneas and Dido are out hunting, Juno and Venus cause a storm so that they have to shelter in a cave together.

Dido and Aeneas 'marry' and rumour quickly spreads the word.

Dido thinks that she and Aeneas are married. This many be a misunderstanding.

king Iarbas finds out, and alerts Jupiter. Jupiter sends Mercury to go talk to Aeneas.

Iarbas is Jupiter's son. He asked for Dido's hand in marriage but Dido rejected him, apparently because of her commitment not to marry again.

Mercury finds Aeneas wearing Dido's cloths and building the city. He questions Aeneas dalllying and remind him of his pietas.

Aeneas suddenly realises he needs to leave Carthage and quickly prepares his ships.

Possibly he intends to tell Dido when the time is right.

Dido realises what his plan is and confronts him about it. He tries to explain that he doesn't want to leave, but fate demands it. Dido is devastated and furious at him

Who could be to blame?

Aeneas

Dido herself

The Gods

Dido shows signs of madness, e.g. voices of her late husband. She decides to commit suicide ​​​​​.​

Dido tells Anna to prepare a pyre, supposedly to burn Aeneas' things. She doesn't tell Anna about her plan to commit suicide.

Aeneas is asleep on his ship and Mercury comes to him in a dream to tell him to hurry up. He wakes up and tells his crew to sail out immediately.

Dido sees Aeneas leaving and curses him again.

Dido stabs herself with Aeneas' sword, having cursed/blamed him.

Juno pities Dido's painful death and sends down Iris to end her suffering, so she finaly dies.

N.B: 'she was dying not by the decree of Fate or by her own deserts, but pitiably and before her time, in a sudden blaze of madness'

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