In epic stories, the hero is traditionally confronted with supernatural entities who strive to encourage or hinder him. In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas deals with these supernatural interferences which all focus on Aeneas' goal of creating Rome and its people. Throughout the books, Aeneas is a truly "haunted" individual confronted with ghosts, gods, and even fate itself who all attempt to instigate him and govern his choices. Aeneas is subject to the power of these forces as they lead him through a journey to create his destined city, propelling him to victory. Immediately, readers are introduced to Aeneas' supernatural plight by Virgil, who states that Juno hates Aeneas. Virgil tells the story of Paris of Troy who was chosen to decide the most beautiful goddess, Minerva, Venus or Juno. Each goddess had promised him great prizes if he chose them, but Venus's promise of any woman like his made the prince choose her. Juno, seeing this as an insult, now hated everything Trojan, including Aeneas, and vowed to make his life miserable. Furthermore, it was prophesied that Aeneas would father "generations of Trojan blood [that] would one day overthrow" (I.31-32) his beloved city, Carthage. Virgil immediately states that all this hatred is causing Juno to interfere with Aeneas' journey in hopes of stopping him. Juno attempts to do just that throughout the novel, finding different ways to derail Aeneas. Juno first goes to Aeolus and asks him to “put new fury into [her] winds and make the long ships flounder” (I.97-98), but Poseidon puts an end to this storm. Then she makes Aeneas fall in love with the Carthaginian queen Dido, hoping that his attachment to the city will cause him to stay and not establish Rome, but Mercury is sent to middle of paper ......he story predicts the future . Both agree on the future of Aeneas' life and the challenges he will face, because the Sybil bases her prophecies on the destiny created by Fate. Aeneas no longer has a choice in life because everything he does is predetermined by fate and no supernatural being will allow him to defy them. Being an epic story, it's not surprising the amount of supernatural interference throughout the books. Aeneas is a man tormented by these powers at every turn as they propel him through the journey that fate has deemed necessary. He is a tool of destiny, following its every command toward the end result of glory and honor for himself and his descendants. He is subject to supernatural powers in a superstitious age with no chance of escape. Aeneas was created to be haunted by the supernatural in order to complete his destiny and establish Rome..