Aeneas is destined to begin a love affair which will have disastrous consequences with Dido, the Queen of the new Phoenician city of Carthage, which she is in the process of building on the North African coast. Now his mother the Goddess Venus, in human disguise, tells him why Dido was forced to leave her homeland.
The fresco of Venus arising from the waves is from Pompeii.
Hear Virgil’s Latin and follow in English here.