#Dido and Aeneas

[lesbiandardevil]

stop me if youve heard this one before .. speluncam dido dux et troianus eandem deveniunt

#based on absolutely nothing did no research idgaf #they look like this To Me #anyway. . i would fumble you in every universe kinda guy #aeneid posting again #the aeneid #virgil's aeneid #aeneas #dido #dido and aeneas #my art

[mcribfarewelltour]

The thing is that so many of the most beautiful love stories boil down to the choice between love and honor/duty. Dido and Aeneas, Hannibal, Good Omens, it’s the same gorgeous and agonizing story. The heartbreaking part is that the two people in question almost never pick the same one. But like “that’s what makes the jukebox play,” I guess.

#hannigram #hannibal #good omens #dido and aeneas #love vs duty and somebody’s always choosing duty #ineffable husbands

[mxopifex]

I’m about to be very petty. My roommate’s family are snobs. His aunt is some big time opera person, his dad is an art professor and fine artist, and his sister is a sometimes professional soprano. Me I’m a first generation college grad who went back to blue collar work because the money is better. I’m a philistin who doesn’t know much about or like a lot of the “concert music” they dig. I’m also a smidge tone deaf and neurodivergent so I don’t enjoy high pitched singing. My brain responds poorly to it most of the time.

My roommate is mostly free of their snobbishness but occasionally it blends through. I love him. He’s my dearest friend. But there it is.

I’ve also been listening to a bunch of lectures explaining concert music because I’m not an anti intellectual. I want to understand. I have found that I kind of like Haydn. I’m learning.

So the other night we are watching Castlevania: nocturne and Eduoard starts singing. At first I was making Kermit scrunch face because if sopranos sounds bad to me, falsetto sounds worse. But then he gets to the “Remember Me” bit

And I’m all

“That’s Dido’s aria! That’s what Dido sings just before she kills herself! Remember me, but forget my fate!”

Roommate looks at me like I have grown a third head.

“Dido and Aeneas! Baroque opera by an English guy!”

Everyone, I need you all to know that my blue collar ass recognized music from an opera and “my sister’s a soprano” roommate did not. I will be riding the petty high of this victory internally for days.

#personal #castlevania #castlevania nocturne #opera #dido and aeneas

[marvelmaniac715]

I have recently begun studying the Aeneid at college, and we have just finished reading about Dido and her death. I can’t quite explain it, but I felt an overwhelming sadness and rage at her death. I have never felt such female rage before, but something in my heart cries out for my fallen sister, even if she’s fictional, doomed by the narrative from her first appearance. I wrote this poem to express my feelings, it’s not my best work and it doesn’t rhyme, but I just had to share how I felt about poor, doomed Dido, the Queen of Carthage:

Oh Dido, most unhappy of women!

Subjected to loss, time and time again

A brother through treachery, a husband through death

Then your heart itself through false love

Venus and her cruel, taunting sons destroyed you

Tore you apart until you were nothing

Scraps of meat for the lions to feast upon

And oh, how the gods feasted upon you

You died by Aeneas’ sword, his belongings in ashes beneath you

His love killed you in all the ways a person can be killed

But, in truth, no gods, no forced love, truly doomed you

It was we, who clamoured for stories

Who clamoured for art, and music, and sculptures

Mostly made by men who could not comprehend your grief

To them, a woman’s heart, and the way it breaks, is a source of amusement

Virgil was the one who doomed you first, your epithet sealed your death sentence

“Doomed Dido” - he never gave you a chance

It was mankind who made the gods, and the stories of old

Aphrodite became Venus, but lost none of her cruelty

Once folklore is written, it’ll rarely change

We know Pandora will open the box

We know Eve and Snow White will eat the apple

We know Orpheus will damn Eurydice by looking back

And we know you will die, struck fatally by Cupid’s arrow

To those who know your myth, they’ll think firstly of your death

Of a shining steel sword plunging into your vulnerable, exposed chest

There is little art that depicts you in your prime

Standing tall, sitting proudly upon your mighty throne, in a city you built through your blood and sweat alone

No, we see you upon your funeral pyre, eyes raised heavenwards

We think “poor, wretched Dido” - is that how we should view a Queen?

In 1666, the closest mankind could get to understanding you was a lament

A soprano dons your regal clothes and sings

“Remember me, but ah! forget my fate”

We have denied your request, all of us

You are doomed anew every time someone reads your story

Laid upon your pyre like a sacrificial lamb to slaughter

Yet another corpse for the gods to draw their power from

I do not see your story as a tragic love

I do not support Aeneas

Perhaps I did, before I knew you

Before I knew the force for good you were

Before I knew your grief, your fallen husband, the sacrifices you made to build Carthage

Before the man you were forced against your will to love sailed away for good

Now I see a monster, who knew what he was doing

He is no Odysseus, he is no Orpheus, though both men have their faults

He is the conceited, self-important child of a god

‘Founder of Rome’ indeed

I weep for you, Dido

Virgil gave you such power, such strength, then he tore it away

You had nothing at the end, you were led to your doom like a puppet on strings

Even this poem goes against your final wish

I cannot mention you without your tragic death before your time

I beg you, please forgive me, my Queen

You have always been so much more than a victim

#the aeneid #roman mythology #dido and aeneas #poetry

[pladoskif]

I think I’ve cracked the code:

my kind of ships are the ‘my tears ricochet’-coded ones.

#i actually cant #soukoku #shin soukoku #dido and aeneas #odango #fukuzawa x fukuchi #why the hell do they not have a tag #bungou stray dogs #fleabag #in general tho #ineffable husbands #johnlock #my tears ricochet #taylor my queen #i’m not okay #i think u might’ve noticed by now #‘cause i loved u #i swear i loved you ‘til my dying day’ #LIKE??/?/&&/

[rzumikhin]

She was so real

#aeneas #the aeneid #virgil's aeneid #publius vergilius maro #dido and aeneas #epic poetry

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

Hi savannah !

I currently have some parts of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on a loop in my brain, and I was curious to know if there is a version of this opera that you like and/ or would recommend :)

this one with jessye norman is everything bc jessye norman is everything she IS dido:

but this one is also really good:

and there’s a video version with maria ewing i’ve been meaning to watch for like forever but i still haven’t but maria ewing is incredible in everything so:

#opera tag #opera #opera asks #dido and aeneas #classics #greco roman mythology #purcell #henry purcell

[lilcreaturethingfromthewoods]

shes got this guy with all these green flags but unfortunately he has another fate preordained by the gods

#just something #dido and aeneas

[hufflepuffs-with-hollow-laughs]

obsessed with the inherent tragedy of falling in love in the ancient world

#penelope and odysseus #dido and aeneas #achilles and patroclus #cleopatra and mark antony #so many feelings #classical civilisation #classical studies

[queen-of-empathy]

Fate

Jupiter dubs her dripping and pathetic

but Dido hunts Aeneas as if

he could save her from her fate

as if she could save him too

from his destiny, too late -

Mercury told us all we needed

to know, but still we could not

let go of the myth of this

smiling radiant angels

lying willingly on a pyre

like an eiderdown smoothed

by a mother’s hands, then

set aflame by desire

the universe always has other plans

myths persist, but when passion dies

it takes fools with it

#female poets #female writers #original poem #original poetry #poetscommunity #original poets on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poetry #quotes #poem #greek mythology #dido and aeneas

[didoofcarthage]

Hi, I love your blog! I was wondering, and I only thought of it because of your username and of her melancholic aria, if you knew of any paintings or illustrations related to Purcell's "When I Am Laid In Earth" or even just Dido's death in general? Thank you!😊

I'm so glad that you like my blog! I love Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (it was one of the inspirations for my url). I get "When I Am Laid in Earth" stuck in my head often, but it's too high for me to sing, sadly...

I don't have any specific recommendations for illustrations of Purcell's opera, but I do have some favorite depictions of Dido's death, which are mostly inspired by Vergil’s account in the Aeneid:

My favorite paintings are probably Henry Fuseli's Dido in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art (I like the inclusion of Iris cutting Dido's hair to release her soul) and Giambattista Tiepolo's Death of Dido in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (this one is actually the header on my blog). I also like Joshua Reynolds' Death of Dido, which is in the British Royal Collection, and a work in the Getty Museum that is attributed to Rubens' workshop.

Additionally, my favorite print is an etching by Stefano della Bella after Parmigiano of Dido Killing Herself, which, like the Rubens workshop painting, shows Dido with Aeneas' sword in the moment before the suicide.

I hope that you enjoy some of these works too! As a bonus, my favorite depiction of Dido before her death is Joseph Mallord William Turner's Dido Building Carthage. Jean-Bernard Restout's series of oil sketches for a tapestry design are also good, if not as complete as a finished painting: Dido Sacrificing to Juno in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, three works of Dido and Aeneas in the LACMA collection, and The Death of Dido, which was up for auction by Sotheby’s in 2019. 

#dido dicit #ask #answer #oh-come-sweet-death #Thanks for giving me an excuse to look through my old posts! #I really should repost some of these paintings since image quality has improved so much since I started this blog... #Dido #Dido and Aeneas #death of Dido #suicide of Dido #Aeneid #mythology #Henry Fuseli #Giambattista Tiepolo #Joshua Reynolds #Stefano della Bella #Parmigiano #Joseph Mallord William Turner #Jean-Bernard Restout

[poemsliz]

Dogs in paintings #1

From Dido receiving Aeneas and Cupid disguised as Ascanius

by Francesco Solimena

#found #dog #cute dog #dogs in paintings #national gallery #London #francesco solimena #classical painting #dido and aeneas #dido’s dog #painting #art

[asexualpersononhere]

Hannibal's Opera Taste

Recently I have been listening and learning more about opera and it has made me curious about what operas Hannibal would like.

First one is Alban Berg's Wozzeck, it has this slightly off sound when you listen to it; it can be more complex considering one of the early statements in it is that it is easy to be moral when you are rich

Another one I think he would like is Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, especially if you consider the riot that happened when it first was performed. This one is a ballet, but my point still stands

Some i feel are more obvious, Dido and Aeneas, Barber of Seville, and Don Giovanni

If i am completely honest there are a lot of operas that could fit the bill, especially if one of the conditions you consider is tragedy

Some of them sound a bit more classic opera, while others are a bit more strange sounding and i feel that fits

Might make more if i think of ones that would really fit

#nbc hannibal #hannibal #Opera #alban berg #wozzeck #character discussion #I took one music history class and now its every ones problem #Sorry to the people who only see this due to the opera tags #ballet #rite of spring #igor stravinsky #don giovanni #barber of seville #dido and aeneas #also to the greek myth kiddos #sorry

[doyouknowthisopera]

#opera tag #operablr #dido and aeneas #henry purcell #Youtube

[pladoskif]

the way dido and aeneas are SO TAYLOR SWIFT CODED is unbelievable

#dido and aeneas #greek mythology #taylor swift #like i’m so serious #my tears ricochet is THEIR SONG aeneid #aeneid #virgil #trojan war #if i’m on fire you’ll be made of ashes too???!!! HELLOOO

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

can't be just me who's still mad at Aeneas for abandoning Dido out cold in the middle of the night. dude you had a vision?,? and you couldn't even talk to her??? you could've kept a cute ldr going and fostered love and friendship between your cities forever instead you break her heart so bad she kills herself over it and hundreds of years later some guy is still all "ceterum censeo cartaginem esse delendam" about it. was it worth it Aeneas. is this what you wanted

#aeneas #aeneid #virgil's aeneid #dido and aeneas #i need a tag for my own rambles