AeneasWanderings.
    After fleeing from the ruins of Troy, Aeneas and his companions wandered for seven years. Beginning with twenty ships, the Trojans intended to found a colony in Thrace, but were warned against it by the ghost of the Trojan prince Polydorus and sailed on. At Delos, the oracle of Apollo told Aeneas to seek the land of his ancestors. At Crete, he was told in a dream that the oracle had meant Hesperia (Italy), where Dardanus, the founder of Troy, had been born. Tossed by a storm onto the Strophades, the travelers battled the Harpies, whose leader prophesied a famine that would make them eat their tables.
    At Buthrotum, in Chaonia, a peaceful interlude was provided by Helenus, Hector’s friend and now the husband of Hector’s widow, Andromache. Helenus told Aeneas that he would establish his city where he found a white sow and thirty piglets, but prophesied wars and troubles before that came to pass. He told Aeneas to consult the Sibyl at Cumae, and the Trojans proceeded around the coast of Italy as far as Sicily, where Anchises died. E