When discussing Aeneas' fate, a thought-provoking question is asked that is commonly debated. If Aeneas is ruled by fate, does he have free will? It is important to approach this question with a solid understanding of destiny. There are two common sides to the debate whether or not Aeneas had free will. One view believes that Aeneas had no choice but to follow his destiny because he was commanded by fate and prophesied to found the race that will one day build Rome. The other side states that Aeneas actually had free will, and even though his fate was set, there is room in his destiny for events to change. It can be argued that Aeneas makes some of his own choices, but no particular detail of his life is intact. Fate dictates that the Trojans found a city in Italy, but it does not establish how this will happen. Here there is room for free will. After much research and considering the opinions of many commentators and the evidence they have shown, the answer can be found by simply returning to the text of the Aeneid. Camps says both sides discuss free will in more detail. One side believes that Aeneas was presented as ordered, directed, and remembered from above through prophets and dreams. For this reason, readers sometimes feel that he is directed by powers external to him and without a character of his own. The other part states that, although Aeneas is ordered by a powerful authority, he is not forced, and it is precisely the situation in which his will is free and his choices are his that differentiates his circumstances from those of other characters in the history whose wills have ceased to belong to them because external forces have taken over. Adding a little to these two sides Duckworth considers ... half of Virgil's folio ...... 1969. Print.Duckworth, George E. "Fate and Free Will in Virgil's 'Aeneid.'" The Classical Journal 51.8 ( 1956): 357-64. Web. 7 March 2014. "Fate". The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Ed. Matthaei, Louise E. “The Fates, the Gods and the freedom of the human will in the Aeneid”. The Classical Quarterly 11.1 (1917): 11-26. Web. 6 March 2014. Tracy, H.L. "'Fata Deum' and the Action of the Aeneid" Greece and Rome 11.2 (1964): 188-95. JSTOR. Web. 19 April 2014. Virgil. Trans. Robert Fagles New York: Penguin, 2008. Print .Wilson, CH "Jupiter and the Fates in the Aeneid." The Classical Quarterly 29.2 (1979): 361-71 Web. 2014.