Cultural Analysis Document 3: Virgil Profile:Within the selected reading, there are some major and minor characters, the most notable being: Juno (Mack 473), Aeneas (Mack 475) , Venus (Mack 475), Jupiter (Mack 478), Ascanius (Mack 479), Dido (Mack 477), Achates (Mack 478), Ulysses (Mack 483), Minerva (Mack 490), Laocoön (Mack 490), Sinone (Mack 485), Hector (Mack 491), Pyrrhus (Mack 498), Priam (Mack 476), Anchises (Mack 504), Anna (Mack 508), Mercury (Mack 512), Deiphobe (Mack 529), Turnus (Mack 537 ), Diomedes (Mack 477), Vulcan (Mack 536), Pallas (Mack 477) and Juturna (Mack 541). They each lived in the period of the founding of ancient Rome, with the theme of the story focusing on men and women who struggled intensely to build a powerful nation. Regarding the genre of the story, it is classified as an epic poem, written in dactylic hexameter, which reads like a dramatic narrative. In Book 1, Virgil, the author of the Aeneid, invoked the muse (goddess of poetry and inspiration) to help him tell the story of Aeneas (Mack 473-475). The epic began with the Trojan fleet departing from Sicily, seven years after the fall of Troy. The goddess Juno incites the wind god, Aeolus, to unleash a great storm on travelers, wrecking their ships near the city of Carthage. Although the goddess Venus appealed to the god Jupiter for their lives, he assured her in prophecy of their glorious future. Shortly after, Venus, appearing to her son Aeneas disguised as a Carthaginian huntress, told him about Queen Dido and the colonists from Tire who had formed the colony of Carthage, surrounded by potentially hostile peoples...