How effectively does Virgil handle the relationship between Dido and Aeneas? Consider who is presented more sympathetically, and why.

There are similarities and differences between Dido and Aeneas and the similarities and differences play an important role in their relationship. For example they are both refugees from troubles they faced in their homelands and they are both looking to save their people and continue the existence of their respective nations. Factors such as these bring the two together, however there are also great differences particularly in what stage they are at in their missions. …

…is presented as a victim of Aeneas' troubles while Aeneas is seen to suffer throughout so the audience is used to seeing him suffer. In a way the audience can become unsympathetic towards Aeneas for bringing his turmoil to an upright queen. By the time that Dido has become mad, Virgil has several times used the simile or her being wounded and of the fire within her. At the end of book 4 she kills herself