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Aeneid Book 1 Summary
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Book 1 starts with the narrator laying the framework for the story to come,
highlighting the themes of violence, suffering and destiny that follow
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We are introduced to Carthage, who are intended to be the rulers of the world, and
the favourite place of Juno
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However,
Juno has learnt the Fates have determined that Carthage will be destroyed by the
Romans, with a great empire
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As such, she was keeping them away from their
goal in an attempt to make them suffer
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Going against
the Fates, using Athena’s sinking of Ajax’s ship as justification for destroying Trojan
ships
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Juno goes to Aeolus, and bribes him with the promise of a beautiful nymph wife to
wreck Trojan ships
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The winds are released and a violent storm starts
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Three ships were run aground on a
hidden reef and the ship of Orontes was pulled down into the water and destroyed
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Neptune is angered by Aeolus and Juno’s disturbance of the seas and reproaches the
winds, saying they will pay dearly if they act without his authority again
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Exhausted, Aeneas makes for the
nearest land; Libya
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He kills seven stags (one per remaining ship) and takes them back to provide
for his men
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The Trojans feast on the beach with the stags provided, but Aeneas is occupied
thinking about the lost men; he is a caring leader
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She points out that Antenor was able to found a great city after escaping, and that
Aeneas should be able to do the same
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Aeneas will found his settlement
and establish a way of life, and will give birth to the founders of Rome, ending with
Romulus and Remus
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Then Augustus will be born,

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who will calm his empire, dispensing justice and imprisoning Strife, ending his
influence
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Aeneas is perceptive and immediately realises
she is divine
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She gives him the Carthaginian’s origins, that
Dido’s brother killed her husband, then Dido ran away with her people, founding a
city encompassed by an animal hide
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His ships started
at 20 and have been reduced to 7
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She uses bird
omens to back herself up
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He then realised she was Venus and scolded her for tricking him
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They can then see the Carthaginians at work; building walls and the
citadel, making laws, electing a senate, with a harbour and theatre
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Aeneas is saddened by the fortune they
have in comparison to him
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This is a warning sign for the Trojans
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Dido is compared to Diana, the goddess of chastity
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Unexpectedly, his “lost” comrades who had been swept away at sea appeared
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They
explain they want to settle in Italy, but are being kept away
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Dido assures her she knows of the great Aeneas and offers hospitality and supplies
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She
also offers to send a search party to find Aeneas along the shore
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He then reunites joyfully with his lost men
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Aeneas got Achates to get Ascanius from the ship and bring gifts for Dido,
gifts originally given to Helen of Sparta
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Ascanius will be sent into a deep
sleep
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Cupid then arrives at the great banquet and begins to make Dido forget Sychaeus,
her previous husband

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