Book 1

• Virgil calls upon a muse to tell the story of the anger of Juno and the suffering of Aeneas
• Juno sends a storm to wreck the Trojans and drive them off course
• Neptune calms the storm as a good man calms an angry mob (links to Roman Civil War riots)
• Venus cries to her father, Jupiter about how he promised Aeneas would live to found the Roman race and Jupiter unrolls the scrolls of fate
• Aeneas is a good leader and despite being tired he goes hunting for his men
• Venus appears to Aeneas as a hunting girl of Diana and tells him Dido's backstory
• Aeneas recognises his mother through her disguise and calls out to her why doesn't she ever appear to him as herself
• Venus shrouds Aeneas in an invisible mist and he walks to Carthage, seeing a temple to Juno with carvings of the battle of Troy
• The men Aeneas thought had drowned arrive in Carthage and are welcomed by Dido; Aeneas, seeing their welcome, reveals himself
• Dido lays a banquet out in Aeneas' honour and Venus, think that Juno will do something to hurt Aeneas, sends Cupid to shoot Dido and make her fall in love with Aeneas