Aeneas’ general situation when he makes his first appearance in The Aeneid is what makes him seem so vulnerable. Juno had petitioned King Aeolus, the king of the winds to sink the ships. “The race I hate is crossing the Tuscan Sea,” she said, “put fury into your winds and make the long ships founder!” Juno bribes him with beautiful nymphs and when he obliges and calls up a storm to wreck the ships all the men know that they…
