![]() ![]() There is no denying that Juno plays a vital role in the epic and her wrath, through cause and effect, is responsible for the main actions and interests in the Aeneid. She, in her bitterness and perverseness, is the divine opposer to Aeneas who is fate-driven in his journey to found Rome. Juno, as the antagonist in the epic, is the main retarder of advancement in the Aeneid. ![]() The Aeneid employs both of these motives of powers which are supplied by Fate, who ordained Aeneas to be the founder of Rome, and Juno who is persistent in making Aeneas suffer in his journey to Italy. These include either divine intervention by gods and goddesses who took an active role in participating in mortal events (such as in the Odyssey), or simply by the unavoidable force that is Fate (such as in Oedipus the King). These events add hurdles that allow the intensity of the epic to increase in a way that parallels many other works by the Greeks or Romans. ![]() He creates a drama that stresses countermotion to the series of events that are set to transpire, in a way that will not allow them travel in a straightforward line. Virgil does an outstanding job at making the Aeneid filled with contradictory dynamics. ![]()
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