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Legendary founder and first queen of Carthage

This article is about the historical figure. For other uses, see Dido (singer) and Dido (disambiguation).

Dido (DY-doh; Ancient Greek: ΔιδώGreek pronunciation:[diː.dɔ̌ː], Latin pronunciation:[ˈdiːdoː]), also known as Elissa (ə-LISS-ə, Ἔλισσα),^[1] was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in Tunisia), in BC. In most accounts, she was the queen of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre (located in Lebanon) who fled tyranny to found her own city in northwest Africa. Known only through ancient Greek and Roman sources, all of which were written well after Carthage's founding, her historicity remains uncertain. The oldest references to Dido are attributed to Timaeus, who lived in Taormina in Sicily, and died around BC, which is about five centuries after the date given for the foundation of Carthage.

Timaeus told the legends surrounding the founding of

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Board Officers

Dr. Robert Thurer

President

President

Currently the President of the Board of Directors of the Vilna Shul, Dr. Robert Thurer graduated from Dartmouth College and received an MD from Harvard Medical School. Trained as a thoracic and cardiac surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, he was affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for 25 years. Bob is a Beacon Hill resident and has been involved in the Jewish community as a Vice President and board member of Temple Sinai in Brookline. He was instrumental, along with his wife Shari and Rebecca Kotkin, in launching our adult learning programs. He and Shari were supporters of our community mosaic project as well as active stakeholders in planning the organizations  Trip to Vilnius.

Natty Hoffman

Vice President

Vice President

Natty Hoffman has experience serving as a finance and operations leader in venture backed technology companies as well as consulting for an

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Medieval Studies Faculty Books

Title:

Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Towards a Critical Historiography

Editors:

Benjamin Anderson and Mirela Ivanova

Publisher:

Penn State University Press

Year:

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion.

In this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the entanglements, past and present, among the academic discipline of Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism. Starting with the premise that Byzantium and the field of Byzantine studies are simultaneously colonial and colonized, the chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to th