Dido Dido (which is a question independent of whether or not she ever met Aeneas) can be associated with evidence for the historicity of others in her family, such as her brother Pygmalion and their grandfather Balazeros. Both of these kings are mentioned, as well as Dido, in the list of Tyrian kings given in Menander of Ephesus's list of the kings of Tyre, as preserved in Josephus's "Against Apion", i.18. Josephus ends his quotation of Menander with the sentence "Now, in the seventh year of his [Pygmalion's] reign, his sister fled away from him and built the city of Carthage
HMS Dido (37) troops from Crete to Alexandria. On 8 June 1941, Marines from "Dido" accepted the surrender of Assab in Eritrea. From July to November 1941, "Dido" was sent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City for a refit, rejoining the Eastern Mediterranean Fleet in December 1941. The first three months of 1942 were spent on convoy escort duty between Alexandria and Malta but in March that year, "Dido" took part in a bombardment of Rhodes. A week later "Dido" joined the cruisers , , , and under the command of Rear Admiral Philip Vian at the Second Battle of