Aeneid book 6

Book six starts out with Aeneas and his men landing on the shores of Cumae. Aeneas goes into the cave and talks to the sibyl, then comes out of the cave to see the dead man the sibyl had prophesied would die. Aeneas and his men prepare the funeral pyre and burial, then Aeneas finds the golden bough the sibyl spoke of earlier. he goes back to the sibyl, and she takes him to the underworld. they use the bough to bribe the ferryman to take them across the river Styx. From there they go to the Field of Tears, and make it to the cross roads. One path leads to the Gate of Ivory, which Aeneas and the sibyl by pass, and go on the other path that leads to the Elysian Fields to meet Aeneas' father, Anchises. Anchises then tells Aeneas about the future of Rome, and shows him the line of people about to go into the overworld that are Roman. After talking ot his father, Aeneas goes back to the overworld, and his men and him begin to sail for Italy.