Vulcan makes these weapons and Venus takes them to her son.ĭivine Intervention 8: Juno sends Iris to have Turnus begin the war while Aeneas is away. Venus knows that the war will be brutal so she asks her husband Vulcan to make weapons for Aeneas as great as the ones that he made for Achilles. Then she gives the native Italians a reason to lash out at the Trojans when she inspires Ascanius to attack a captive deer.ĭivine Intervention 7: Tiberinus pities the Trojans and the coming war so he advises him to seek out King Evander who will aid him in the war. She makes Amata opposed to Aeneas as a son-in-law and informs Turnus of the state of affairs. She does not want the Trojans to have an easy time so she sends Allecto down to cause chaos. Neptune, at the prompting of Venus, makes sure that there are no further storms on the journey from Sicily to Italy.ĭivine Intervention 6: Juno pays no heed to the prophecies of the land. They lose four of them, but Jupiter puts out the fire with rain. Juno, feeling bad for Dido, sends Iris to take Dido's soul to the underworld after she kills herself.ĭivine Intervention 5: Juno tries to have the ships of the Trojans burned so they can go no further. Mercury comes to Aeneas again when he is delaying his departure.

When these events are brought to the attention of Jupiter, he sends Mercury down to order Aeneas to leave. When this is misinterpreted, his household gods come to life to tell him point blank where to go.ĭivine Intervention 4: Juno hopes to make Aeneas stay with Dido and arranges for them to have sex thinking that this will be a binding tie. When he stops at an island, a god speaks to him from a sacrificial tripod and tells him that he must go to the land of his ancestors.

Without this intervention, Aeneas would have died several times over.ĭivine Intervention 3: Aeneas wanders around the Mediterranean unsure of where to go and the gods must constantly remind him. The ghosts of Creusa and Hector direct Aeneas as he fumbles through the city not wanting to embrace his fated task. The Trojans are puppets in the hands of the gods in this bookĭivine Intervention 2: While Venus does rescue her son from some ill, the primary divine intervention in this book is supernatural. She also sends her divine son Cupid to make sure that the queen falls in love with Aeneas. Once they are in Africa, Venus informs her son who rules the island and makes sure he is cloaked as he enters the city. Neptune stops this storm from getting any worse. The Aeneid Topic Tracking: Divine Interventionĭivine Intervention 1: Juno intervenes in the Trojans' safe trip towards Italy by creating a storm that destroys one ship and leaves the rest of the ships separated in Africa.

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