Aeneas' journey from the Odyssey

• Summarized events from the Odyssey

Greece

• Aeneas' initial stop involves Polydorus, who was transformed into a tree and cautions Aeneas about the treacherous king of Thrace.
• Apollo, through King Anius, directs Aeneas to journey to Crete.
• Aeneas' third stop leads to the establishment of a short lived colony in Crete, devastated by disease.
• The Penates reveal Aeneas' ultimate destination as Hesperia, known as Italy.
• After enduring a four-day storm, Aeneas' ships make landfall at the island of the Harpies, Strophades.
• Harpie Celano prophesizes that Aeneas will only reach Italy when hunger compels them to consume their tables.
• Helenus establishes Little Troy and delivers a prophecy, instructing Aeneas to found his new city where he encounters a white sow nursing thirty piglets near a river.
• Helenus warns Aeneas about Scylla and Charybdis in Sicily and advises him to seek guidance from the oracle in Cumae.

Italy

• Aeneas evades Scylla and Charybdis but lands on an island where he rescues Achaemenides, one of Odysseus' men.
• Anchises passes away leading Aeneas to depart Sicily and subsequently be driven to Carthage by Juno's storm.
• Iris, dispatched by Juno, deceives the Trojan women in Sicily, leading them to set their own ships ablaze.
• The elderly, sick, and women stay behind while Aeneas leads the remaining people to Italy.
• Anchises' ghost guides Aeneas on how to descend into the underworld, emphasizing the neccecity for communication within it.
• Misenus challenges Triton to a shell blowing contest and is drowned in the Port of Misenum.
• At Cumae, Aeneas encounters the Sibyl, Deiphobe, within the Temple of Apollo.
• The Sibyl and Aeneas journey into the underworld through Lake Avernus.
• Aeneas and his crew reach their final destination at Lavinium.
• The Trojans begin constructing a town destined for them near the Port of Misenus.
• Aeneas sets sail to Palentium to forge an alliance with Evander.
• Aeneas and his allies engage in major battles against the Trojans and Latins near Lavinium.
• Juno tricks Turnus onto a boat in Lavinium and sails him back to his home in Ardea.

Asia Minor

• Hector's ghost urges Aeneas to escape Troy and guide the refugees to establish a new land.
• Aeneas witnesses Neoptolemus murdering Priam in Priam's Palace.
• Before departing Troy, Aeneas curses Helen near the Temple of Vesta.
• Aeneas realizes he lost Cruesa in Troy near the Temple of Ceres.
• Creusa's ghost instructs Aeneas to flee Troy from Priam's Palace.

Africa

• Mercury is sent by Zeus to ensure Carthage welcomes Aeneas.
• Dido had previously lived with her husband, Sychaeus, in Tyre.
• Aeneas conceals himself in the Temple of Juno and views all the paintings depicting the Trojan War in Carthage.
• Before her suicide, Dido curses both Aeneas and the Trojans in Carthage.

Mythical Places

• Juno bribes Aeolus to induce a storm, intending to sink Aeneas' ships in Aeolia.
• The Sibyl uses drugs on Cerberus to subdue him near the River Styx.
• In the Underworld, Aeneas encounters souls in the Plains of Mourning.
• In the Underworld, Aeneas speaks with his father, Anchises, in Elysium Anchises sends the Sibyl and Aeneas back to the upper world through the Gates of Ivory.