Aeneas Journey In The Aeneid

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Aeneas’ Underworld Experience Aeneas’ journey in the underworld was an experience in itself, Aeneas most of all learned that every sacrifice for good will be rewarded. . In The Aeneid Aeneas is told by his father to meet him in the underworld. Aeneas’ father Anchises tells Aeneas to go to a Roman island Eubian and there he will find a priest named Sibyl. Once Aeneas meets Sibyl, Sibyl makes Aeneas go into the forest and find the bough. The bough is a golden branch that is only able to be broken by the chosen one. Aeneas breaks the branch and is granted access into the underworld but as Virgil states even Aeneas needed help from the gods to find this rare branch: “O be my guides, if there’s a way. Wing on, into the woodland where the bough,

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