Love Hurts revised

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Love Hurts
Greek Heroes Romances and marriages do not always end well for our heroes or their loved ones. When we examine the cases of Dido and Aeneas, Herakles and Deianeira, and Jason and Medea, we see issues of the vulnerability that romance brings to even the most superhuman among us. We also see, however, contrasting attitudes between the Greek and Roman perceptions of the hero.
Aeneas and Dido’s story of love is a tragic one as it does not end in a happily ever after as other love stories do. Aeneas was just a stranger and the prince of Troy who met Dido by chance when they go shipwrecked off the coast of Africa after being stricken by Juno. When Dido meets him, she falls in love him mainly out of pity after he gives her an account of all the misfortunes that had befallen him. Dido fell in love with Aeneas, and she considered herself married to him. However, Aeneas was not going to drop his destiny in Rome and eventually he left breaking off their relationship. Overwhelmed by the breakup and loneliness, Dido decided to end her life because she found it unbearable without Aeneas.
The story of Aeneas and Dido is almost similar to that of Deianira and Hercules, who were also deeply in love, but their relationship came to an abrupt end. Deianira was Hercules’ second wife who had to fight for her love and won by breaking Acheloos’ horns. Deinira poisoned her husband accidentally while trying to give him a love portion to make him …