A Dido Problem as Modernized by Fejes Toth

Let a finite number of line segments be located in the plane. Let be a circle that surrounds the segments. Define the region enclosed by these segments to be those points that cannot be connected to by a continuous curve, unless the curve intersects some segment. We show that the area of the enclosed region is maximal precisely when the arrangement of segments defines a simple polygon that satisfies a fundamental isoperimetric inequality, and thereby answer the most basic of the modern day Dido-type questions posed by Fejes Tóth.