Article: Works of Virgil: Book III

Virgil
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Book III

(Lines 1-293.)

Book III continues the flashback begun in Book II. Aeneas is still
relating the story of what happened after the collapse of Troy. By early
summer Aeneas and the few men who had managed to escape the burning city had
constructed a fleet. In ancient times no one ever sailed directly across an
open body of water if it were possible to sail close to the coast. So the
first place they landed at was Thrace, which has long been friendly to Troy.
There Aeneas founded a city Aeneadae. But as he was about to sacrifice to
Venus and was starting to pull up some sapplings of myrtle to garland the
altar, blood seemed to drip from the bark. Then came a ...

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