What is the role of prophecies and/or fate in The Aeneid?
Aeneas role displays leadership characteristics. While he struggles through his journey. Aeneas conserves his sanity of his own life and his men. He prays to the Gods about his difficulties, even though it’s a goddess being responsible for those hardships. Juno puts obstacles in Aeneas journey. In some way his fate is going to lead him where he belongs as it seems like he follows it by forced, but he is willing to reach his accomplishments not knowing how but aiming for it. This leads to how people want to change their fate by wanting different things and do whatever it takes to accomplish it. Sometimes this does not satisfy one needs because that was probably not their fate.