Safe Haven After Storm

The first book is setting up what is to come in the rest of the Aeneid. It shows us the fighting between the gods, especially between Juno and Venus. Venus comes down and sends Aeneas to Carthage where he will meet Dido. What is ironic about this situation is that Dido and Aeneas can get along so well when Dido worships Juno, who hates all Trojans. This situation foreshadows the rage that Juno will have when she loses one of her biggest worshipers, Dido, because of her unrequited love for Aeneas. We are also shown, by a conversation between a couple of the gods, that Aeneas will infact make it to Italy to found Rome because it is what the Fates predicted. There is nothing that Juno can do that can stop him for forever. The end of the first book also serves as a transition to the beginning of Aeneas' voyage to the founding of Rome.