After all, if Aeneas refused to leave Dido would have never committed suicide. Keep in mind that Aeneas didn’t really have a choice and didn’t even want to leave. He was commanded to go by the almighty gods (4.247-297). So if anyone in that argument held the blame it would need to be the gods, since Venus and Juno manipulated Dido and Jupiter caused Aeneas to leave Carthage. To be fair Aeneas did try to sneak out of Carthage (4.345-366), but can you really blame him? Dido behaved in a very irrational manner when she confronted Aeneas and he said that he was going to continue his journey to Italy (4.452-487). Did she expect him to just forget about his mission, his destiny? Honestly with Dido, she may have thought such. She called the time she had sex with Aeneas in a cave a Marriage
After all, if Aeneas refused to leave Dido would have never committed suicide. Keep in mind that Aeneas didn’t really have a choice and didn’t even want to leave. He was commanded to go by the almighty gods (4.247-297). So if anyone in that argument held the blame it would need to be the gods, since Venus and Juno manipulated Dido and Jupiter caused Aeneas to leave Carthage. To be fair Aeneas did try to sneak out of Carthage (4.345-366), but can you really blame him? Dido behaved in a very irrational manner when she confronted Aeneas and he said that he was going to continue his journey to Italy (4.452-487). Did she expect him to just forget about his mission, his destiny? Honestly with Dido, she may have thought such. She called the time she had sex with Aeneas in a cave a Marriage