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That they both are rejected by the younger men whom they love is what Dido in "The Aeneid" by Homer (fl. 8th B.C.E.) has in common with Jocasta in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Dido falls in love with the Trojan War hero, Aeneas. She is the beautiful but older queen of the powerful North African city of Carthage. Aeneas ultimately leaves her heartbroken. The same may be said of Jocasta, the beautiful but older Theban queen who loses her heart to the young hero, Oedipus, the love of her life and her son.

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