Aeneas the Hero Aeneas the Hero enters Chaucer's dream vision as an image on the wall of the glamorous temple of Venus, a decorated wall depicting events of the Aeneid including "the best-known love-story of the Middle Ages-, the story of Aeneas and Dido. ... (ll. 258-61) For Virgil in the Aeneid, Aeneas ceases to be pius Aeneas when dwelling in Dido's citadel. ... In the Aeneid, neither Aeneas nor Dido appears to be responsible for initiating the love affair: an intervention of gods, namely Aeneas' own mother, draws the two lovers into a reciprocal relationship. ... ...

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