Dido.

    The founder and queen of Carthage, Dido originally lived in the Phoenician city of Tyre, where she was known as Elissa. When her brother Pygmalion, king of Tyre, murdered her husband (and uncle) Sychaeus, Dido fled with a band of refugees, landing finally on the coast of Libya. There she negotiated with Iarbas, a North African prince, to buy a parcel of land. Offering to purchase as much land as could be encompassed by a bull’s hide, she cut the skin into thin strips, which she tied together to encircle enough territory to build a city.
    As the city of Carthage grew and prospered, Iarbas became alarmed at its potential strength and demanded marriage with Dido. The queen agreed to the match, but secretly had a pyre built and killed herself. In Virgil’s account, Dido dies on the pyre for love of Aeneas.
    Dido is most famous for her liaison with Aeneas, but her life before meeting the Trojan prince is also popular in literary, dramatic, and musical works.