HON 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1,2,4,6,9-12: Acerbas, Ascanius, Aeneid
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Minerva in the beauty contest: juno loves carthage, but she knows rome is going to destroy carthage later. Aeneas is sailing past sicily, so juno decides to mess with him, regardless of the fates: she finds aeolus (king of the winds) and tells him that if he stirs up the sea against the. Trojans she"ll give him on of her nymphs to marry. Aeolus tells her that her wish is his command. He may or may not have actually taken the nymph: he takes his spear and pounds on the mountain where the winds are locked up. One day they may look back at these with nostalgia. Jupiter (king of the gods) is looking down at the world. Venus (goddess of love) sees what"s happening to her son, aeneas, and goes to jupiter and complains that they"ve suffered so much when other trojans (antenor) are already in italy.