It turned out to be sacks of sand which Dido had dropped in the ocean presumably as an offering to the spirit of Acerbas. Later, Acerbas appeared to Dido in a dream telling her who killed him and where the gold really was. Phy was told that Acerbas, DidoвЂ™s husband, who was also her uncle and priest of Melqart (Hercules) and therefore second in power to King Pygmalion, had a large amount of treasure, so Acerbas was killed. But the people decided they didnвЂ™t like that and accepted Phy as their king though he was yet still a boy.

You see, when Phy and DidoвЂ™s father died he decided to leave the rule of Tyre a joint rule between the two of them. She fled her homeland of Tyre several years earlier when Phygmalion, her brother, killed her husband to get his gold. A storm drives them to the North African coast, where they enter the city of Carthage, ruled by Queen Dido (also known as Elissa).Дido allows them to take refuge there she being a refugee herself. Anchises dies on the journey and he is buried in Siciliy, where they stop for a time. (Did I mention that Venus is AeneasвЂ™ mother?) They travel for six years.

Hell hath no wrath as a woman scorned.ДЄeneas barely escapes with his son, Ascanius, his father, Anchises (second cousin of King Priam), and several others. So, in addition to her daughter being replaced by the Trojan prince Ganymede as the godsвЂ™ cup-bearer, another Trojan Prince, Paris, chose another as the вЂњloveliest.вЂќ What woman wouldnвЂ™t be upset about that? So she cursed the Trojans, which eventually led to the fall of Troy (remember the Trojan Horse?), where King Priam, who was king of Troy at the time, was killed, and presumably, so was Paris. (Something about an appleвЂ¦) His choice of Venus (who, coincidently, is the goddess of love and beauty) really made Juno mad. The second thing that really ticked Juno off was King PriamвЂ™s son, Paris (or Alexander) was asked to choose the loveliest among Juno, Venus, and Athena. Which was one of the events leading to the fall of Troy. But since she couldnвЂ™t do anything to Jove (the head god), she instead hated the Trojans.

But thatвЂ™s another story.) This whole incident made Juno (Hera), JoveвЂ™s wife and HebeвЂ™s mother mad, and, of course, jealous. It was part of вЂњcoming of age.вЂќ It actually had nothing to do with sex, well, at least openly. (This was common practice among the ancient Greeks. Ganymede was abducted by Jove and than made his lover. It all started when Jove (Jupiter or Zeus depending on your nationalityвЂ¦) decides he wants to replace his daughter, Hebe, as the cup bearer of the gods with Ganymede, a Trojan prince. The events leading up to the story of Dido and Aeneas are even more complicated than the opera itself. An opera in three acts by Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum TateДЄ synopsis and commentary by Joey Calkins

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