Dido represents girls’ ability to lose their minds over love, but as queen of Carthage, Dido also presents an direct, political threat to the destiny of the foundation of Rome, for if she had been successful in convincing Aeneas to stay along with her in Carthage he could have retained his Trojan identification and in no way might have founded Rome. Dido attempts to persuade Aeneas to remain with her, by taking him “with her among her buildings, showed her Sidonian wealth, her walls prepared” (Book IV, l. 1045) and offers that the Trojans “join (the Carthaginians) on equal terms”. Dido is “the woman for whom his Trojanness defines him,” as she gets to know him better by asking questions about Troy and the entire scene prior to their first