Describe Æneas’s journey into the under-world in the Æneid Book VI and comment on its significance.

 

Describe Æneas’s journey into the under-world in the Æneid Book VI and comment on its significance.

 

Introduction

Virgil has described Aeneas’ visit to the underworld in Book VI of The Aeneid. It has been considered the most outstanding achievement of Virgil’s imaginative and poetic prowess. The episode is the keystone of the whole of The Aeneid. Without this episode, the poem would break apart into two separate incomplete and incoherent short epics. In fact, the visit off to the underworld with all its elaborate religious and patriotic imagery gives The Aeneid its spiritual meaning and vision.

The Beginning of Aeneas’ Journey to The Underworld

 

Aeneas’ visit to the underworld takes place soon after the protagonist deserts Dido at the command of the divinity. The Dido episode reveals that in the beginning, Aeneas is still a man with human weaknesses, and he is reminded of his mission by Mercury. 

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