Dido the time of Dido. Even with the date of 864 BC that historical revisionist David Rohl gives for the end of the Trojan War, Aeneas would have been about 77 years old when Dido fled Tyre in 825 BC and 88 when she began to build Carthage in 814 (following Peñuela's reconstruction), hardly consistent with the romantic intrigues between Dido and Aeneas imagined by Virgil in the "Aeneid". Virgil's references in the "Aeneid" generally agree with what Justin's epitome of Trogus recorded. Virgil names Belus as Dido's father, this Belus sometimes being called Belus II by later commentators to distinguish
Dido Sotiriou Association for the Turkish-Greek Friendship ("Daphne/Defne"). She died in Athens at the age of 95 years because of pneumonia. The "Dido Sotiriou Cultural Prize", issued by the Hellenic Authors' Society, is named after her. Dido Sotiriou is a realistic writer who uses self biographical elements participating emotionally to the adventures of her protagonists. Her novels deal with the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the civil war period and the post-war period in Greece. Dido Sotiriou Dido Sotiriou (née Pappa; alternative spelling: Dido Sotiriu; Greek: Διδώ Σωτηρίου, Turkish: "Dido Sotiroğlu"; 18 February 1909 – 23 September 2004) was a Greek novelist, journalist, and