Dido_Vs._Medea

Dido Vs. Medea Virgil’s Dido vs. Euripides’ Medea Euripides’ Medea was much more of a vengeful person than Virgil’s Dido. Medea performed some serious acts of revenge because she was so heartbroken, while Dido just didn’t want to live anymore. To begin with Medea killed everyone who stood in the way of her happiness with Jason. She killed everyone who had a part in their separation including her children. Although Dido killed herself, leaving her people with no one to lead them, I don’t think she was revengeful towards Aeneas in any way. She was just so heartbroken that she thought she would not be able to go on living. Medea and Dido are alike in several ways. Both women fall deeply in love with men and are eventually abandoned. They both felt that they were left with nothing, and decided to take some sort of desperate action for retribution. Although the situations were completely different, both women committed some exceptionally irrational acts. Medea’s love, Jason, leaves her for another woman; so she decides to kill everyone except Jason. Dido’s love, Aeneas, leaves her because he has a predestined path set for him by the gods, and she decided to just kill herself. medea, jason, dido, just, herself, killed, aeneas, both, because, women, should, revenge, love, kill, wanted, several, people, go, didn’t, broken, although, about, , woman, sort, rather, killing, everyone, children, acts, way, times, think, own, leave, heart