Dido, Queen of Carthage (opera) reminds him of his duty to his people, Aeneas realises that he must abandon Dido. As Aeneas and his men set sail for Italy and Carthage is besieged by Iarbas and his troops, the heartbroken Dido commits suicide and dies amidst the flames of the city. Masque: "Neptune's Prophecy" In the patriotic masque which followed the opera performance, Neptune, the god of the sea, appears along with Venus, Ascanius, and the Three Graces to praise the glory of Great Britain as a "god-like race" and to predict that the nation will eclipse both Tyre and Carthage in naval fame. Dido,
Ripheus Ripheus Ripheus (also Rifeo and Rupheo) was a Trojan hero and the name of a figure from the "Aeneid" of Virgil. A comrade of Aeneas, he was a Trojan who was killed defending his city against the Greeks. "Ripheus also fell," Virgil writes, "uniquely the most just of all the Trojans, the most faithful preserver of equity; but the gods decided otherwise" (Virgil, "Aeneid" II, 426–8). Ripheus's righteousness was not rewarded by the gods. In his "Divine Comedy", Dante placed Ripheus in Heaven, in the sixth sphere of Jupiter, the realm of those who personified justice. Here, he provides an