by Virgil
princeps ante omnis densum Palinurus agebat agmen
Palinurus the helmsman is lost
Aeneid Book 5, lines 833 - 861 and 867-871
Archives: Poems
Aeneid Book 6, lines 77 - 101
The Sibyl’s Prophecy
Aeneid Book 6, lines 124 - 155
Aeneas learns the way to the underworld
Aeneid Book 6, lines 236 - 268
The journey to Hades begins
by Virgil
His actis propere exsequitur praecepta Sibyllae
Aeneas and the Sybil take the road for the underworld
Aeneid Book 6, lines 295 - 330
Charon, the ferryman
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.