What Is The Role Of Women In The Aeneid

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Women are spiteful and emotional. In The Aeneid, Juno hates the Trojans because of the Trojan Paris’s judgement against her in the beauty contest. She called Aeolus, the god of the wind to bring a great storm down upon Aeneas. “With such anger seething inside her fiery heart the goddess reached Aeolia, breeding-ground of storms their home swarming with raging gusts from the South.” (The Aeneid, Page 966). This shows that women are too emotional. They are easily angered and seek revenge on their enemies. Moreover, Juno also found a way to keep Aeneas from going to Italy to complete his duty. She tried to convince Venus to get Dido and Aneas alone together. “Juno approaches Venus and sets a cunning trap: What a glittering prize, a triumph you

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