This hero raises a funeral pyre for a man who was drowned by Triton for challenging the gods to a conch shell music contest.
This hero raises a funeral pyre for a man who was drowned by Triton for challenging the gods to a conch shell music contest. He learns that one of his helmsmen never passed onto the underworld because he was not buried. This hero is barely able to recognize the face of a fallen countryman because he is so disfigured, and is rejected by the shade of a dead lover that flees to her deceased husband instead. This hero exits the underworld through an ivory gate of false dreams after being guided by the Cumaean Sibyl. This hero is told by his father Anchises that his descendants will begin a lineage that stretches to Romulus and Julius Caesar. For 10 points, name this title hero of an epic poem by Virgil.
This hero raises a funeral pyre for a man who was drowned by Triton for challenging the gods to a conch shell music contest.
Aeneas