VIRGIL: re: Dido, the singer & Dido, the Queen

[Salvatore Conte]

Yes, Dido is the singer's real name. But you are correct: her parents chose it since their knowledge and interest for Virgil's Dido. I've examined some texts of the singer: there are clear references to Virgil's Dido, but just in Virgil double writing way. Officially the singer doesn't like to answer to this question: she's afraid by the comparison with Virgil's character: too much serious for light pop musics. She takes artistic inspiration from Virgil without admit it. She is not alone today. Many authors, in films or books, take many ideas from Virgil without admit it.     Simply to add an information to a discussion that is turning far away from Virgil's temes, I have found on the web that Dido is her real name, but her father was a litterary agent and her mother was very interesting in poems and she also wrote many of them. Therefor i think trying to find V's temes in her songs would be completely useless and probavly wrong. She could simply know who Dido is and she probably doesn't take care of it.