Dido At least two scholars have argued that the inclusion of the pyre as part of Dido's suicide—otherwise unattested in epic and tragedy—alludes to the self-immolation that took the life of Carthage's last queen (or the wife of its general Hasdrubal the Boetharch) in 146 BC. (6.450f) During his journey in the underworld Aeneas meets Dido and tries to excuse himself, but Dido does not deign to look at him. Instead she turns away from Aeneas to a grove where her former husband Sychaeus waits. Virgil has included most of the motifs from the original: Iarbas who desires Dido against her
Dido flip on stage as "". However, in September 2007, the "Daily Telegraph" speculated as to whether "music's own Bridget Jones ... has, like her trademark boot-cut jeans and eponymous Dido-flip hair, fallen out of fashion". The flip was sported for a time by Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the former US President Bill Clinton, at the time of Dido's rise to fame. The Dido flip was not discernible on the cover of the artist's first album, "No Angel" (1999), on which her hair was combed back, and by the time of "Life for Rent", her hair was longer. It could, however, be