Juno throughout the entire story does not want Aeneas to found Rome, which is what is fated to happen. Once an object is fated, no one, including the Gods can change it. But as Juno realizes there is some wiggle room inside of fate. Juno may not be able to prevent fate, but she is able to do while staying within the constraints of fate, prolong the process of founding Rome, and kill as many people as possible.
Juno realizes that she cannot delay the formation of Rome alone, and will need as many allies and detractions as she can get. She even states: “If I can sway/ no heavenly hearts I’ll rouse the world below” (7, 425-426). She is going to do everything both within her own authority, and the constructions of fate to lengthen the establishment of Rome. Even if this process involves using the mortal world. She is first going to plead with the fellow Gods, and if that doesn’t work she is going to provoke the humans.
Juno does provoke the humans when she starts the war between that Latins and the surviving Trojan soldiers. Which in turn accomplishes both …show more content…
Meaning she herself finds it to be a disgrace, she is a goddess married to the king of the gods, and yet a mortal is surpassing her. She then moves on to say if her powers fall short, this is ironic considering they already have. She is not going to be able to stop Aeneas founding Rome; she only has a limited amount of power in the matter. So haven’t her powers already fallen short? She cannot fight fate, even if she recruits other Gods and involves the mortals on Earth, she can only delay the process. She herself even admits this, so why is she trying to fight this fate? Juno does not want to be bested by a mortal, she does not want to look weak, so she is doing everything in her own power, to fight Aeneas’s fate tooth and nail. She is not going to just allow herself to be overcome by a mortal; she is going to go down