Fate In The Aeneid

The concept of fate is immensely significant in The Aeneid and drives the story to what it is today. When Virgil describes the souls of the Roman soldiers from the Underworld, it foreshadows the Trojans being successful in the end. One could suspect that this gives away the poem and loses the suspense, but the readers of then did not have a good understanding of fate. In The Aeneid, the goddess Juno keeps reminding the reader that destiny ends up determining that the Trojans will eventually make a city in Italy, though she does not specify how they execute this. Juno ends up using this as her advantage to make the Trojans face an astounding amount of difficulty. The other side is even though the readers believed in the concept of fate, this

This is mainly because the Gods are closely connected to the idea of destiny. After Aeneas destroys the town of Troy, he leads the survivors in search of a new town in Italy. Aeneas and his crew of men are seen travelling from Troy across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy by Juno. She absolutely hates the Trojans because she is holding onto a grudge from a past beauty contest. Paris, a Trojan prince, picked Venus over her and another goddess, Minerva. Because of this outcome, it forces Venus and Minerva to choose the Greeks’ side during the Trojan War. The Trojans are supposedly bound to become the Romans, who eventually end up destroying Carthage which is Juno’s favorite city. She ends up scheming with the god of winds and together they send a brutal storm. This windstorm forces the Trojans to take refuge in the town of Carthage. In the town, Aeneas meets Dido, who recently lost her husband. With the help of gods and goddesses, the two fall in love. The soldiers end up settling in with Aeneas in Carthage. While all of this is happening, Jupiter starts to get worried that Aeneas is losing his sight on going to found a new city in Rome. Mercury is sent by Jupiter to Earth to tell him that he needs to get moving on the quest, and so Aeneas and his men take off. After he leaves, Dido ends up killing herself. When