AENEID

In 17 B.C., Vergil's magum opus, Aeneid, was published posthumously. It had been commissioned by Augustus to celebrate the Trojan Aeneas, legendary ancestor of Romulus and the Julian line.

Aeneid and Vergil feature
Hades' Realm in the Aeneid

Aeneas Book VI Glossary Entries

Aeneas
Anchises
Cerberus
Charon
Deiphobus
Dido
Elysium/Elysian Fields
Furies
Hercules
Jupiter
Lethe
Misenus
Palinurus
Priam
Proserpine
Rhadamanthus
Sibyl
Sisyphus
Vergil

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