Speaking wildly, in despair and set on death, she tore her purple robe and hung a noose around a beam—an ugly end.
Amata's end here in Book 12 recalls Dido, the first queen to take her own life in this story (Book 4). Both queens were pierced by a god's power (Dido twice, in Book 1).
Both women have had marriages thwarted by Aeneas: Dido's own union with Aeneas and the expected marriage of Turnus with Amata's daughter, Lavinia.
Other women have been possessed by gods or divine rites/power: the Sybil (seer), by Apollo, in Hades (Book 6); the wives in Troy, by Helen (Book 6); the Trojan women induced to set their own ships ablaze (Book 5); the Latin women, by Amata, in the forest (Book 7); the Trojan women induced by Juno and Iris to set their own ships ablaze (Book 5).
Turnus, who like Amata was pierced by Allecto, also dies, though not by suicide.
