The underworld
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- Created on: 26-05-15 13:15
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- Book 6- The underworld
- They arrive off the coast of Cumae
- Aeneas follows Anchises instructions and goes to the temple of Apollo
- Sibyl instructs him to sacrifice seven bullocks and seven sheep
- though Sibyl he prays that they Trojans will be able to settle in Latium
- Sibyl warns him that he will face trails in Italy
- 'I see wars, deadly wars'
- she instructs him to get into the underworld
- he must find the golden bough which is hidden in a dark tree
- if the bough falls off the tree easily then it means hes fated to go into the underwolrd
- venus helps him by sending down two doves to guide him to the bough
- he must find the golden bough which is hidden in a dark tree
- Sibyl sacrifices four more bullocks so that they can travel through avernus
- Sibyl instructs him to sacrifice seven bullocks and seven sheep
- they perform the funeral rites of Misenus
- he was killed after he tried to rival a god at playing the trumpet
- Aeneas follows Anchises instructions and goes to the temple of Apollo
- Charon delivers the sprits of the dead across Avernus
- he can only allow those who have proper burial rites
- if not they have to wait on the river bank for 100 years
- sees palinurus who didn't receive roper burial rites
- he lies and says that the tiller broke off
- respectful to the god of sleep
- he lies and says that the tiller broke off
- allows aeneas to cross because the golden bough represents the gods will
- when they get to the other side they have to face cerberus
- barking monster with three heads
- Sibyl throws him a honey cake that contains sedative drugs
- he can only allow those who have proper burial rites
- They pass different groups of dead
- Infants who have been torn away from their mothers by death
- people who have killed themselves because they hated their lives on earth
- men whod been sentenced to death by a false charge
- those whod dies from love sick
- Aeneas is devastated to see that Dido's love destroyed her
- Aeneas' eyes well up with tears
- Dido runs back to Sycheaus
- soldiers
- sees Deiphobus who had his face mutilated and is in the same condition now
- brutality of war
- sees Deiphobus who had his face mutilated and is in the same condition now
- Tartarus
- guarded by tisiphone who doesn't sleep and is the leading fury who punishes sinners
- region of eternal punishment
- Rhadamanthus
- their to force criminals to confess to their crimes
- Tityos
- tried to **** latona
- liver was laid out over nine acres while vultures picked at entrails that kept on growing
- King Salmoneus
- imprisoned after he pretended to be zeus
- Zeus hit him with a thunderbolt
- Titans
- race that declared war with the gods
- sent to the underworld
- citizens include
- men who hated their brothers
- beat their fathers
- caught and killed in adultery
- supporting Athenian values
- The Elysian fields
- The land of joy
- life is simple
- they spend their time wrestling, eating, dancing and excersing
- life is simple
- first Aeneas must clean his body with fresh water and then fix the bough in the furnace of the doorway
- he meets noble people
- people who have died for their native land
- Anchises says that rome will always be know for skills in battle, governing people and civilisation
- chaste priests
- people who have discovere new skills
- people who have died for their native land
- Anchises
- tried to embrace him three times
- reincarnation
- eg Siluis who will be his son born after his death
- the importance of his fate
- drink from the river lethe
- souls will forget the past and e able to return to earth in a new body
- at the moment their soul is not clean enough due to fighting, anger and jealousy
- souls will forget the past and e able to return to earth in a new body
- eg Siluis who will be his son born after his death
- tells him the Trojan and Italian race will mix
- Laurentine race will be founded
- tell him of his descendants
- Romulus will begin the roman race
- which will include Augustus Caesar
- he will bring order to rome
- compared to Herculus and Bacchus to shows his nobility
- which will include Augustus Caesar
- talk is great pathos about Marcellos who died at 19
- great respect
- honourable decendants
- emphasises the focus on the future
- Romulus will begin the roman race
- exists through ivory gates
- The land of joy
- They arrive off the coast of Cumae
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