Highway to Hell
Where does Aeneas and his men land after honoring Aeneas' deceased father with funeral games?
What is Cumae?
What does Aeneas first encounter upon entering the underworld?
What are phantoms of Disease, Hunger, Death, Poverty, and Old Age?
What change does Aeneas undergo as he journeys through the underworld?
His identity as a Trojan changes as he sees the future glory of Rome. He is now a Roman.
Where does Aeneas land once he enters the Tiber River?
Latium
How does Juno feel about Aeneas landing and settling in Latium?
She wished the Trojans had died long ago.
What is a sybil?
What is a priestess whom a god “breathes through” to reveal his will?
What is Charon's duty?
What is ferrying properly buried souls across the Acheron River?
What does Anchises say about Caesar Augustus?
He is "son of a god" and will expand his empire "beyond the stars."
Why does King Latinus welcome the Trojans?
He witnesses omens and an oracle tells him that a stranger will marry his daughter and lift his name to the stars.
Who does Juno recruit to help plot against the Trojans?
Allecto
What must Aeneas acquire to enter the underworld?
What is a golden bough?
What interaction does Aeneas have in the Fields of Mourning?
What is Dido's rejection?
How does Aeneas return to the land of the living?
Who has been planning on marrying Lavinia?
Who is Turnus?
Who does Allecto poison first?
What does the sibyl do before flinging herself into the Avernus Cavern, the entrance to the underworld?
What is sacrificing calves, a black lamb, a heifer, and bulls?
How does the sibyl get past Cerberus?
What is giving Cerberus a drugged treat to make him sleep?
What does it mean that Aeneas passes through the Gate of Ivory?
He passes through the gate of "false dreams." The future that his father showed him might be too hopeful. It might not be as great as predicted.
How does the harpy's prophecy come true?
Aeneas and his men do eat their platters — but their plates are wheat cakes.
What does Allecto prompt Turnus to do?
Turnus gathers his armor and declares war on the Trojans for stealing his promised wife.
How does Venus help her son gain entrance to the underworld?
What is sending her twin doves to guide Aeneas to the golden bough?
What is the main reason Aeneas goes to the underworld?
What is obeying the vision he had received from his father to visit him?
What about the Roman empire could Virgil be criticizing in Book 6?
Virgil may be critical that the Romans will fully achieve a Golden Age because not even their hero and role model, Aeneas, is perfectly pious.
What are the two omens that prompt King Latinus to seek an oracle?
The bees swarming the laurel tree and Lavinia's hair catching fire
How does a stag play into the start of the war between the Latins and Trojans?
Iulus (Ascanius) unknowingly hunts down a pet stag beloved by the country folk. Allecto fills Iulus' hounds with the scent and steadies his hand. The countryfolk rally against the Trojans.