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The Aeneid ----- (david west) …
The Aeneid ----- (david west) 
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Key Episodes
Juno hates the Trojans due to 'the injustice' over the Judgement of Paris (a trojan), Ganymede (also a trojan) and cause her favourite place is Carthage (home of her armour) which has been fated to be destroyed by Rome, and that Aeneas's descendants will be the founders of Rome, 'an empire without end'.
Trojans have left Sicily on boats when a huge great storm is caused by the wind god Aeolus overwhelms them. Neptune notices Juno's work and tells the winds off and settles the sea - his domain
Aeneas thinks a bunch of his ships are gone, they go to the closest safe shore of Libya which has a safe natural harbour
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Juno visits and supplicates Aeolus and promises him her most beautiful nymph as a wife if he sinks the trojan ships
Aeneas calms his men as they mourn "he showed them a face of hope and kept his misery deep in his heart"
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Aeneas & co. hidden in mist visit carthage where they find the missing trojans being welcomed by Dido (due to mercury intervention).
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MORTAL CHARACTERS
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Dido - Queen of Carthage, tragic victim of the gods and fate
Evander - King of Pallanteum and father of Pallas and sworn enemy of the Latins, and Aeneas befriends him creates alliance
Amata - Queen of Latium/ the Latins and wife of Latinus. she opposes the marriage of her daughter, to Aeneas and remains loyal till the end to Turnus, Lavinia’s original suiter.
Pallas - Son of Evander, and is entrusted to Aeneas’s care and tutelage. Pallas eventually dies in battle at the hands of Turnus, which eventually causes Turnus's death
Camilla - The leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens. Camilla is perhaps the only strong mortal female character in the epic.
The Aeneid Begins
book 1
we meet the protagonist Aeneas, who has with the other Trojan survivors, just left Sicily after escaping the Greeks ransack of the city of Troy. However on the sea they are overwhelmed by storms and 'sheer mountains of water' sent by the wind god Aeolus at the behest of the conniving, petty Juno queen of the gods. they are rescued by neptune and land in a natural harbour in libya
Venus cries to her father Zeus who tells her the fates destiny for aeneas. so Venus visits her son in disguise and tells him of the nearby settlement of Carthage and its widowed queen Dido. aeneas and his useless friend are hidden by Venus in a mist and find Carthage and its people busy building a new city 'like bees at the beginning of summer' & "their walls are already rising". Aeneas is comforted by carved pictures of the Trojan war. dido-'like Diana' welcomes the previously thought dead trojans
symbols
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Aeneas' Shield
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symbolises the destiny of rome and A's inevitable fate while protecting his fate and destiny by protecting him in battle
The Gates of War
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Jupiter predicts in at the start of the poem that the gates are destined to be bolted shut symbolising Augustus Caesar's 'peaceful reign'
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Theme: Fate
aeneas will win a long war and rule for 3 years, Ascanius/lulus will rule for 30 years there descendants will rule until Romulus founds Rome "an empire that will know no end"
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Theme: Afterlife - A. wishes he had died at the hands of Diomede in Troy (cant be buried if you die at sea)
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aeneas's fate is to found a city in Italy that will build the ground work for the future Roman Empire (with hopes for a long and peaceful future in Virgil's time)