In the Aeneid, does Aeneas ever address Virgil?

Juno is hostile to the Trojans and tries to stop Aeneas from founding Rome for the following reasons: 1. She is angry over the Judgement of Paris. 2. read more

Unless I am forgetting something, no, absolutely not. The poem does forecast future events in Roman history, for which the Aeneid is an etiological tale, a founding myth. read more

Aeneas is the protagonist, or main character, of the Aeneid. He is the son of Anchises, a Trojan prince, and Venus, the goddess of love. Virgil portrays Aeneas as a Trojan hero; a warrior who will lead his people to safety, found a new Trojan state, and establish order in his and his countryman's lives. read more

Long before Virgil's time, Romans liked to believe that among their ancestors were the legendary Trojans, who, under Aeneas's leadership, sailed from Troy, in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), westward across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy and settled in Latium, site of the future Rome. read more