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| | Dido - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dido (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | According to Carthaginian tradition, Dido committed suicide to avoid a marriage, but in the Latin epic Aeneid, Virgil places her 300 years earlier, attributing the suicide to her desertion by Aeneas at the fall of Troy (traditionally 1184 |
 | | In the Carthaginian version, Pygmalion succeeded their father, Belus, and promptly murdered Dido's husband Acerbus (or Sychaeus). |
 | | She entered the Guildhall School of Music in London, where she learned to play piano and violin, at the age of six, and travelled during her teen years with a classical ensemble. |
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