The Aeneid Suffering Analysis

The Importance of Suffering The Aeneid by Virgil is an epic story about a man's struggles and adventures to found Rome. Aeneas, son of Anchises and Venus, is the protagonist throughout The Aeneid. Throughout this epic there is many books that tell the story about how Aeneas finds and founds his new homeland after Troy, his original homeland, is destroyed. Throughout his adventure he ends up in Carthage. Little does he know there would be an impactful woman by the name of Dido. Dido, the Phoenician exile and strong independent queen of Carthage is pushed into suffering from several different happenings and they turned her into less than what her potential is. Dido's brother, Pygmalion, contributed to the suffering because he has shown how fate is always inevitable and how suffering is important throughout Didos introduction through Book One of The Aeneid. “But her brother held power in Tyre- Pygmalion, a monster, the vilest man alive. A murderous feud broke out between both men. Pygmalion, catching Sychaeus off guard at the altar, slaughtered him in blood” (The Aeneid 1.421-425). Sychaeus, the richest man in Tyre, who is also Dido's old husband was the start of suffering for Dido. The significance of Sychaeus being the first is that the …show more content…
“But the queen- too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart.” (The Aeneid 4.1-3). Dido has endured the pain of love from most of the encounters with the men within The Aeneid. The endured pain and loss she has felt leads her to her own killing of herself. “..and all at once the warmth slipped away, the life dissolved in the winds.” (The Aeneid 4.75-76). The life Dido lived was of course powerful and great but it also faced many heartbreaks. The suffering endured by Dido was too much and therefore she was lead by the gods into