Editing Aeneid (section)

====Book 3: Wanderings====
Aeneas continues his account to Dido by telling how, rallying the other survivors, he built a fleet of ships and made landfall at various locations in the Mediterranean: [[Thrace]], where they find the last remains of a fellow Trojan, [[Polydorus (son of Priam)|Polydorus]]; [[Delos]], where [[Apollo]] tells them to leave and to find the land of their forefathers; [[Crete]], which they believe to be that land, and where they build their city ([[Pergamea]]) and promptly desert it after a plague proves this is not the place for them; the [[Strophades]], where they encounter the Harpy [[Celaeno]], who tells them to leave her island and to look for Italy, though, she prophesies, they will not find it until hunger forces them to eat their tables; and [[Buthrotum]]. This last city had been built in an attempt to replicate Troy. In Buthrotum, Aeneas meets [[Andromache]], the widow of [[Hector]]. She is still lamenting the loss of her valiant husband and beloved child. There, too, Aeneas sees and meets Helenus, one of [[Priam]]'s sons, who has the gift of prophecy. Through him, Aeneas learns the destiny laid out for him: he is divinely advised to seek out the land of Italy (also known as ''Ausonia'' or ''Hesperia''), where his descendants will not only prosper, but in time rule the entire known world. In addition, Helenus also bids him to go to the [[Sibyl]] in [[Cumae]].

Heading into the open sea, Aeneas leaves Buthrotum, rounds the south eastern tip of Italy and makes his way towards [[Sicily]] (Trinacria). There, they are caught in the whirlpool of [[Charybdis]] and driven out to sea. Soon they come ashore at the land of the [[Cyclopes]]. There they meet a Greek, [[Achaemenides]], one of Ulysses' men, who has been left behind when his comrades escaped the cave of [[Polyphemus]]. They take Achaemenides on board and narrowly escape Polyphemus. Shortly after, at [[Drepana|Drepanum]], Aeneas' father Anchises dies of old age. Aeneas heads on (towards Italy) and gets deflected to Carthage (by the storm described in book 1). Here, Aeneas ends his account of his wanderings to Dido.

[[File:Death Dido Cayot Louvre MR1780.jpg|thumb|The suicide of [[Dido (Queen of Carthage)|Queen Dido]] (book 4), sculpture by {{Interlanguage link|Claude-Augustin Cayot|fr}} (1667–1722)]]