ENGL 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Misenus, Acerbas, Trojan War
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Aeneas sails off to italy, putting it at cumae in the bay of naples. There, he visits the sibyl, a priestess of the god apollo. He asks her to show him the way down to the underworld. She tells him where to find the golden branch, which will act as his passport. But then she tells him that the trojans first have to purify themselves because one of them has died and remains unburied. It turns out this is some moron named misenus. After aeneas gives the orders for his funeral, he prays for a sign that the sibyl"s other predictions will come true. Venus sends down two doves which lead him to the tree. When aeneas finds the golden branch on the tree, he breaks it off, even though it clings to the tree. Then aeneas and the sibyl descend to the edge of the underworld. There the ferryman takes them across the river sticks.
