Dido wanderer". According to Marie-Pierre Noël, "Elishat/Elisha" is a name repeatedly attested on Punic votives. It is composed of the Punic reflex of *ʾil- "god", the remote Phoenician creator god El, also a name for God in Judaism, and "‐issa", which could be either "ʾiš" (𐤀𐤎) means "fire", or another word for "woman". Other works state it is the feminine form of El. In Greek it appears as "Theiossô", which translates Élissa: "el" becoming "theos". This understanding of the chronology related to Dido and her company resulted in the following dates for Dido and her immediate relations, as derived from F.
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