Didone abbandonata

After seven years of traveling Aeneas and the other Trojans are surprised by a storm that wrecks their ship on the African coast Here they are led by the Amazons to the Queen of Carthage Dido who soon falls in love with Aeneas When the King of Numidia Iarbas comes to marry Dido she rejects him But in the meantime Anchises appears to Aeneas in dreams and commands him to leave to found Rome So while Iarbas army surrounds Carthage Aeneas embarks secretly for Rome