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- Melodramatic
- Brave leader
- clever
- gentle
- good heart
- emotional
- charming
- father figure
- pious
- emotive speaker
- puts people first
- doesn't show his worries
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- Relationship with Venus - this is a strange relationship, on one hand Venus is trying to help her son to go to his fate, but she is immortal and cannot directly help her son throughout his fated journey. She knows that it is his fate to succeed, but because she is his mother, she cannot stop worrying about her son.
- Relationship with his followers - A good Roman citizen is meant to show devotion to his people and make sure that they are following their leaders. Aeneas shows this by worrying about his lost followers in Book 1 and entertaining his people in the funeral games in Book 5.
- Relationship with Dido - They have a caring relationship with one another because they have similar devotion to their people and city and they have experienced loses at some point in their short lives. But this relationship is lost when Aeneas leaves Dido because of his fated journey.
- Relationship with Anchises - Just like his relationship with his mother Venus, they care for one another, but this time they are mortal. They have such a strong bond that Aeneas is upset that he cannot have physical contact with his father in the underworld in Book 6.
- Aeneas is the protagonist in the story and his fate is to found the city of Rome.
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- In Book 1 he is concerned about his people and this is the first time that he sees Dido. They have experienced similar loses by losing their loved ones and their treasured city. The audience sees him as not a hero, but a human with emotions and fears.
- In Book 2 he has experienced war and has lost his wife and city because of the invading Greeks. He is an eye witness to the fall of Troy and the audience feel for him at this point.
- In Book 4 he can be portrayed as harsh because he leaves his lover in pursuit for a new city. But he must follow his fate and establish a future for his son and people.
- In Book 5, he is a leader for his people because he entertains them and looks out for potential soldiers to pose for his army. He laughs and respects everybody's participation.
- In Book 6, he matures because he has finally got the closure that he needs before he can continue on his journey to Rome. He fully understands his fate and has the devotion to carry on.
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- I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shores of Lavinium; and a great pounding he took by land and sea at the hands of the heavenly gods because of the fierce and unforgetting anger of Juno. Book 1
- Three times I tried to put my arms around her neck. Three times her phantom melted in my arms, as weightless as the wind, as light as the flight of sheep. Book 2
- At that time, she was taking delight in plying the tribes with all manner of stories, fact and fiction mixed in equal parts: how Aeneas the Trojan had come to Carthage and the lovely Dido had thought fit to make him as her husband; how they were even now indulging themselves and keeping each other warm the whole winter through, forgetting about their kingdoms and becoming slaves of lust. Book 4
- The months have passed and the cycle of the year is now completed since we laid in the ground that were all that remained of my divine father and consecrated an altar of mourning. Book 5
- For the kingdom I ask no more than what is owed me by the Fates, and allow the Trojans and their homeless gods settle in Latium.
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