Aeneid book 3

This book starts off with Aeneas's continued story of the Trojan war. He escapes Troy and leads the survivors to Antander to build ships. They then use there newly made ships to sail to Thrace, and while making sacrifices, Aeneas meets the spirit of Polydorus who asks him for a funeral so his spirit can rest in peace. After Aeneas does this, he and his crew then sailed to Delos. When Aeneas arrives at Delos, Apollo speaks to Aeneas and tells him to go back to the land of his ancestors, which Anchises believes that to be the island of Crete. They travel to Crete and start building, however, a terrible plague comes to their newly build civilization in Crete, and the gods come to Aeneas in a dream and say that Anchises was mistaken. They also tell Aeneas that he is supposed to start a civilization in Italy, not Crete. The gods also tell prophecy of Roman supremacy, declaring, “You must prepare great walls for a great race” (3.223 ). They then sail for Italy, but a storm comes and they crash onto Strophades. The men kill and eat some of the roaming cows, and that gets the attention of the Harpies, who are birds with female faces. The Harpies then, out of anger, curse the men saying they will not found Rome until they are so hungry that they will eat the tables. Aeneas goes to another island and offers another sacrifice to Apollo, and then they sail for Italy. On the way, Aeneas runs into Andromache and she tells the story of her and Helenus' capture, and she also advises him to go the long way to Italy because it is safer. Again Aeneas and his crew start for Italy, they run into a man from Ulysses's crew and he tells them of the Cyclops that they deceived, shortly after,  the Cyclops in question shows up, and the men escape, and sail for Italy.