Editing Aeneid (section)

====Book 1: Storm and refuge====
Also in the manner of [[Homer]], the story proper begins ''[[in medias res]]'' (into the middle of things), with the Trojan fleet in the eastern [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], heading in the direction of Italy. The fleet, led by [[Aeneas]], is on a voyage to find a second home. It has been foretold that in Italy he will give rise to a race both noble and courageous, a race which will become known to all nations. Juno is wrathful, because she had not been chosen in the [[judgement of Paris]], and because her favourite city, [[Carthage]], will be destroyed by Aeneas' descendants. Also, [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]], a Trojan prince, was chosen to be the [[Cup-bearer|cupbearer]] to her husband, [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]]—replacing Juno's daughter, [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]]. Juno proceeds to [[Aeolus (son of Hippotes)|Aeolus]], King of the Winds, and asks that he release the winds to stir up a storm in exchange for a bribe ([[Nereids|Deiopea]], the loveliest of all her sea nymphs, as a wife). Aeolus agrees to carry out Juno's orders (line 77, "My task is / To fulfill your commands"); the storm then devastates the fleet.

[[File:1875, Cézanne, Aeneas Meeting Dido at Carthage.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Cézanne]], ''Aeneas Meeting Dido at Carthage'', c.&nbsp;1875, [[Princeton University Art Museum]]]]
[[Neptune (mythology)|Neptune]] takes notice: although he himself is no friend of the Trojans, he is infuriated by Juno's intrusion into his domain, and stills the winds and calms the waters, after making sure that the winds would not bother the Trojans again, lest they be punished more harshly than they were this time. The fleet takes shelter on the coast of Africa, where Aeneas rouses the spirits of his men, reassuring them that they have been through worse situations before. There, Aeneas' mother, Venus, in the form of a huntress very similar to the goddess [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]], encourages him and recounts to him the history of Carthage. Eventually, Aeneas ventures into the city, and in the temple of Juno he seeks and gains the favour of [[Dido (Queen of Carthage)|Dido]], queen of the city. The city has only recently been founded by refugees from [[Tyre (Lebanon)|Tyre]] and will later become a great imperial rival and enemy to Rome.

Meanwhile, [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] has her own plans. She goes to her son, Aeneas' half-brother [[Cupid]], and tells him to imitate [[Ascanius]] (the son of Aeneas and his first wife Creusa). Thus disguised, Cupid goes to Dido and offers the gifts expected from a guest. As Dido cradles the boy during a banquet given in honour of the [[Troy|Trojans]], Cupid secretly weakens her sworn fidelity to the soul of her late husband [[Sychaeus]], who was murdered by her brother [[Pygmalion of Tyre|Pygmalion]] back in Tyre, by inciting fresh love for Aeneas.