the role of love in Virgil's Aeneid?

Question

What is the role/significance of love in The Aeneid and where is it most prevalent in the text?

Answer 1

Aeneas meets Dido, queen of Carthage. They fall in love. But then Aeneas has to leave her and go to Italy to help found Rome. Dido immolates herself as he departs.

Earlier, Aeneas was escaping Troy as the city was falling to the Greeks. His father was Anchises, and his son was Ascanius. He led his son by the hand, while, "Aeneas did on his back the aged Anchises bear."

Two different kinds of love.