The Aeneid

How do you feel about Dido's committing suicide for Aeneas' leaving her? According to you, for what purposes does Dido kill herslef? Please elaborate on your opinions.

How do you feel about Dido's committing suicide for Aeneas' leaving her? According to you, for what purposes does Dido kill herslef? Please elaborate on your opinions.

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Dido's suicide was the ideal ending for her. She takes her own life because of her own broken vows (to her late husband), and she put her love for Aeneas' before her own people. Thus, in the eyes of the ancients and under the ethical law of the times, she really had no other choice.