THEO 20205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Purgatory, Aeneid
Document Summary
Written as an origin story for the roman empire that jesus was born into years later, the. Aeneid by virgil digresses in book vi to explain aeneas" journey to the underworld to visit his deceased father. This book makes it very clear that death is not the end of the human journey and that the deceased are never too far away. Throughout book vi, aeneas journeys through the underworld in search of his father, but he has to go through many different parts to get to him. He first sees the river that the souls must cross and then the place where the souls must repent the sins that they committed during their life on earth, similar to the idea of purgatory in the catholic faith. After this step in the underworld, they come to a fork in the road where the spirits either go to the blessed groves (heaven) or the dis (hell).
