Cumaean Sibyl, a detail of the Sistine Chapel (ca. 1510) Michelangelo

 

 

Pressed on by his destiny, but stymied at every turn by its vagueness, Trojan Aeneas wanders from one shore to another without success.

His father Anchises dies.

In search of clarity Aeneas seeks out the Cumaean Sibyl, a prophetess like the one at Delphi.

 

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