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The Wandering Prince of Troy The Wandering Prince of Troy "The Wandering Prince of Troy" is an early modern ballad that provides an account of the interactions between Aeneas, the mythical founder of Rome, and Dido, queen of Carthage. Although the earliest surviving copy of this ballad dates to c. 1630, the records of the Stationers' Register show that it was first licensed to Thomas Colwell for printing nearly seventy years prior in c. 1564 or 1565. The narrative of the ballad loosely parallels the events in books 1-4 of Virgil's "Aeneid" and the seventh epistle of Ovid's "Heroides".. Like many ballads from the period,