Chapter one starts off with Dido questioning the gods as to why Juno has been giving her people and Aeneas such a difficult time. There is a feast, and Venus carries out a plan in attempts to better protect Aeneas. Venus uses her son Cupid as a stand in for Ascanius so that she could get close to Dido and cause her to fall in love with Aeneas. In chapter two Aeneas tells the story of the destruction of Troy and how the Trojans used their infamous hollowed bellied horse. Chapter three he continues his story of the fall of Troy. He claims a gory ghost figure of Hector contacted him in a dream and forewarning him to flee before it is too late. He witnesses an omen which is supposedly confirmed by Venus and escapes with his father, wife and
