Dido: Queen of Carthage
She climbed her own funeral pyre and fell on the sword her lover had left behind, cursing his people with her last breath. Centuries later, a Carthaginian named Hannibal marched on Rome.
Carthage
Aeneas’s Journey to Italy: The Myth That Founded Rome
Troy fell in a single night. What came after took years — storms, gods, a queen who killed herself when he left, a descent into the underworld, and a war in Latium before a single Roman brick was laid. The journey was the point.