Preface; Introduction; 1. Stoic world fate and Virgil's Aeneid; 2. Fate and the human responsibility of dido and Aeneas in Aeneid 4: a case study; 3. Stoic world fate and the gods of the Aeneid; 4. Stoic world fate and the humans of the Aeneid; 5. Stoic world fate and roman imperium in the Aeneid; Tragedy and didacticism; Bibliography.