Through this verse translation of Vergil's Book VI of the Aeneid we
journey with Aeneas through the Underworld to meet his father.
Accompanied by Sibyl, the prophetess, who instructs him first to
pluck the Golden Bough that will ensure his safe passage, Aeneas
descends into the Underworld where he passes crowds of the dead
waiting to be ferried across the river Styx before being carried
across himself by Charon the Ferryman. We encounter monsters of
legend like Cerberus the three headed dog who guards the gates of
the Underworld, and dead souls in the Field of Mourning who are
resigned with regret to their fate. We are moved by the plight of
Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas' lover who took her own life
when he abandoned her. It's a tale full of terror, sadness and
longing but also of courage and resolve - rich in vivid poetic
imagery to fire the imagination.
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