AeneasUnderworld.
    After leaving Sicily for the second time, Aeneas visited the Cumaean Sibyl, who told him of his future in the Italian kingdom of Latium. At his request to visit the Underworld, the Sibyl directed him to the Golden Bough, his passport across the river Styx.
    At the river’s edge, he met the ghost of Palinurus; his faithful helmsman had fallen asleep at the tiller and been washed overboard as a sacrifice to Neptune, ensuring the safety of the rest of the fleet. Unburied, Palinurus could not cross over the Styx, and he begged Aeneas for burial; a tomb was later erected for him.
    After being ferried across the Styx by Charon, Aeneas and the Sibyl traveled through the Underworld, seeing many of its terrible denizens. The shade of Dido was also there, but she remained Aeneas’s enemy even in death and refused to recognize him. In the Fields of the Blessed he encountered the shade of his father, Anchises, who predicted the future of the Roman race and then led him back through the Underworld to the land of the living.