Misenus

"On his voyage for Italy, Misenus -- no Elpenor-like wimp but a fortissimus heros (6.169) -- had recklessly blown into a conch shell as though summoning troops to battle: "jealous Triton caught and plunged him in the foaming waves amid the rocks" (173-74). Like Odysseus who knew nothing of Elpenor's fall until he saw him in the netherworld, Aeneas was ignorant of Misenus's drowning until he saw his corpse on the beach."
Luke's Eutychus and Homer's Elpenor

Also see:

• 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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