Aeneas comes to her court a suppliant, impoverished and momentarily timid. He is a good-looking man. If anything, his scars emphasize that. The aura of his divine failure wraps around him like a cloak. Dido feels the tender contempt of the strong for the unlucky, but this is mixed with something else, a hunger that worms through her bones and leaves them hollow, to be filled with fire. Kij Johnson
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Dido is a poor and beautiful woman. She is the queen of Carthage and, according to Virgil, she has been married to Aeneas since childhood. She has lived in his shadow ever since, and she is beautiful and feminine. However, she is also a woman who was never loved by her husband.

She feels that Aeneas' constant bowing before Jupiter will win him glory while she will be forgotten. As she sees it, love is a weakness that the strong will exploit while the weak will suffer. Aeneas comes to her court a suppliant, impoverished and momentarily timid.

He is a good-looking man. If anything, his scars emphasize that. The aura of his divine failure wraps around him like a cloak.

Dido feels the tender contempt of the strong for the unlucky, but this is mixed with something else, a hunger that worms through her bones and leaves them hollow, to be filled with fire.

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