Passage Analysis: The Aeneid

This week’s passage analysis is number thirty one, which is taken from the Aeneid and found in book six. The Aeneid is about the roman hero Aeneas. Aeneas is the son of the mortal man Anchises, and the goddess Aphrodite. This passage is spoken by Anchises, the father of Aeneas, whom at this point has died and waits in the underworld on the Fields of Elysium. Aeneas has gone to Apollos priestess Sibyl to seek her power to tell the future. He wants to know if it is the Trojans destiny to be allowed to settle in Latium as he had been foretold.
Aeneas asks Sibyl to show him the way to the underworld so that he may see his father one more time. Sibyl tells him that he needs to find a golden bough hidden in a dark tree and offer it to Persephone