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MISENUS
Misenus was a Hector's trumpeter who left Troy with Aeneas.. On his voyage for Italy, Misenusno 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.Also see:
Luke's Eutychus and Homer's ElpenorAeneid and Vergil feature
Hades' Realm in the AeneidAeneas 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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