![]() Finally, Juno is angry because Jupiter made Ganymede, a Trojan prince, the gods's cupbearer. ![]() She also hates the Trojans because one of their ancestors was Dardanus, the son of Jupiter - Juno's husband and king of the gods - and Electra, a daughter of Atlas and Juno's rival for Jupiter's affection. Why, Virgil asks, appealing to the muse of epic poetry, does Juno, the queen of the gods, harass such a good man? He mentions two explicit reasons for Juno's hostility: her love for Carthage and corresponding hatred for the future Rome, which is destined to overthrow her favorite city and her lingering resentment because Paris, a Trojan, did not award her the golden apple, the prize given to the most beautiful woman in the world. Virgil begins his epic poem with a succinct statement of its theme: He will sing of war and the man - Aeneas - who, driven by fate, sailed from Troy's shores to Italy, where he founded a city called Lavinium, the precursor of Rome. ![]()
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