Dido Queene of Carthage is perhaps Christopher Marlowe's most scholarly play. Composed while its author was still a student at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Dido is the only play Marlowe adapted primarily from classical works he would have encountered at virtually every stage of his education. While scholars have explored the various ways Marlowe adapted the tragic tale of Dido and Aeneas, the so-called main plot of Dido, scant attention has been paid to play's portrayal of the pederastic love affair between Jupiter and Ganymede. Performed in the play's opening scene, the same-sex nuptials of Jupiter and Ganymede establish a cluster of tropes and props that will be deployed throughout the play to trace the ineluctably tragic trajectory of Dido and Aeneas's relationship. Mixed-sex relationships, meanwhile, exist at the play's center, the serious stuff of Marlowe's tragedy. Later in the play, well after Jupiter has given Ganymede Juno's "linked-gem", the goddess of marriage curses "lustful Jove and that adulterous child".