Question: Consider the role that various gods and their moods and actions play in The Aeneid. It might make sense to focus especially on Juno and Venus.
Being that The Aeneid involves Greek mythology, the book would not be considered one without the gods and goddesses within the book. Each of the Gods and Goddesses plays their own role and are identified with their own focus, such as Juno who is the Queen of Gods and Venus, who is the Goddess of love. Gods and Goddesses have an impact on mortals within the book in which their fate is decided by them.
In The Aeneid, the main goal for Aeneas was to fight for the Trojans in which he has promised them a new city. Juno, the Queen of Gods despises the Trojans and does her best to make sure that Aeneas is destroyed and that he is not able to fulfill his goals. On the other hand, being that Juno’s primary goal is to make sure that Aeneas and the Trojans are destroyed, his mother, Venus does her best to make sure that nothing is done to him. She tries to protect him throughout the entire book each time a conflict is thrown upon Aeneas throughout his journey. As Juno keeps an eye on Aeneas’s every move, so does his mother to make sure nothing happens to him. Gods and Goddesses role within the book are either to destroy you if they have something against you or your people or they try to help you with the help of the other Gods and Goddesses that are willing to. Juno and Venus both play an important role in the book and shows a number of powers and affect that each one of these Gods/Goddesses has upon mortals along with the power of love and evil.
It almost seems malicious the way Gods use humans to satisfy their needs. They set up “proxy wars” to get at one another and settle disputes. Your comment has a good example of this.