by Virgil
Hinc via Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas
Charon, the ferryman of the dead
Aeneid Book 6, lines 295 - 330
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Aeneid Book 6, lines 450 - 476
Aeneas finds Dido among the shades
Aeneid Book6, lines 548 - 579
Aeneas comes to the Hell of Tartarus
by Virgil
Respicit Aeneas subito et sub rupe sinistra
Aeneas hears of the punishments of Hell in Tartarus
Aeneid Book 6, lines 608 - 627
Souls awaiting punishment in Tartarus, and the crimes that brought them there.
Aeneid Book 6, lines 637 - 659
Aeneas reaches the Elysian Fields
by Virgil
His demum exactis, perfecto munere divae
Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl reach the Elysian Fields.
Aeneid Book 6, lines 788 - 805
Aeneas’s vision of Augustus
by Virgil
huc geminas nunc flecte acies, hanc aspice gentem
Aeneas's father sings the praises of the future Emperor Augustus.
Aeneid Book 6, lines 860 - 886
Aeneas sees Marcellus, Augustus’s tragic heir
Aeneid Book 6, lines 886 - 901
The portals of sleep
by Virgil
Sic tota passim regione vagantur
Aeneas returns to the upper Earth through the gates of sleep.
Aeneid Book 7, lines 54- 78