Dido

Dido, or Elissa, a daughter of Belus, king of Tyre. According to the legend, when her brother, Pygmalion, murdered her husband, Sichceus, for the sake of his wealth, Dido, with a party of Tyrians who sympathised with her, fled with a treasure, and founded Carthage about 800 B.C. She obtained a grant of land by a stratagem. She was promised as much land as a bull's hide would cover, and she cut the hide into fine strips and thus made it encompass a goodly amount of land. One account represents her as burning her. self upon a funeral pyre to escape the necessity of marrying the king of the Geetulians. Virgil relates her adventure with .AEneas and her suicide when he desertee- her.