262: Tunisia: Dido of Carthage

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🗓️ 24 November 2022

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Join Tom and Dominic as they tell the story of the tragic heroine of Virgil’s Aeneid - Dido of Carthage. Listen as they discuss the origins of Carthage, recite top Latin phrases, and are joined by Juliette Pochin for a beautiful rendition of Dido’s Lament. Join The Rest Is History Club (www.restishistorypod.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the rest is history. And today Tom, we are going to be talking about
0:15.9	a country that I've actually seen play at the World Cup, which is Tunisia, a country
0:20.5	with a...
0:21.5	I have it in 1990. I know you don't want to talk about football too much, but I saw them
0:24.2	play against Colombia in 1998 in the French World Cup.
0:27.7	How do they do?
0:28.7	It will be a 1-1 now, so...
0:30.2	Well, that's a shame. Tunisia generally...
0:32.4	Well, I mean, generally better known, it's not as well known for football as it was for
0:36.7	Barbary Pirates.
0:37.7	Child sacrifice.
0:39.7	Well, come to Child sacrifice. It was the bread basket of the Roman Empire, and before
0:44.0	that, it was the centre of the great city of Carthage, Rome's deadly rival.
0:50.5	Yep.
0:51.5	And which, according to legend, was founded by a woman called Dido. And so I thought that
0:56.4	today's episode, in honour of Tunisia, we would go right back to the beginnings and look
1:01.5	at Dido, who is the founder of Carthage. And she's a legendary figure, but her best known
1:08.1	incarnation is as the great tragic heroine of the Roman poet Virgil's epic, Theeneid.
1:14.8	Right.
1:15.8	And Theeneid, it's an epic that tells the story of the founding of Rome. How Rome comes
1:21.3	to be founded by a band of exiles from Troy. And these Trojans are led by Aeneas, who
1:27.0	is the son of Venus. He has escaped from Troy. He's come with a fleet of ships. And the
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