History of Tunisia for centuries assigned its foundation to a queen of Tyre, Elissa, also called Dido. The Roman historian Pompeius Trogus, a near contemporary of Virgil, describes a sinister web of court intrigue which caused Queen Elissa (Dido) to flee the city of Tyre westward with a fleet of ships. The Roman poet Virgil (70–19 B.C.) portrays Dido as the tragic, admirable heroine of his epic the "Aeneid", which contains many inventions loosely based on legendary history, and includes the story about how the Phoenician queen acquired the Byrsa. By the middle of the sixth century B.C., Carthage had grown into a
Fido Dido in the United Kingdom, Fido Dido appeared in his own magazine. The first edition introduced his family, and was titled "Meet the Fidos". It was published by Ravette Publishing. In 1993, a video game called "Fido Dido" was made by Kaneko for the Super NES and Sega Genesis. However, it was never released, because the publisher Kaneko's United States branch shut down in the summer of 1994. There was a Neopets sponsor game starring Fido Dido. In the early 1990s, Fido Dido had a comic strip in the teenage magazine "YM". Fido Dido appears in the animated short "Logorama", as