In the midst of sailing to Troy to retrieve Helen, the Achaean army have to stop at Aulis because of the weather, cursed by the Olympian God and preventing them from proceeding any further. What will King Agamemnon do, when the seer Calchas has advised the King that in order for their safe passage, they must sacrifice...
The Aeneid is an epic poem written in 12 books and is modeled in part on the great Greek epic poems, on Homer's Iliadand Odyssey, and on Apollonius' Argonautica. The Iliad describes the exploits of Achilles and other Greek heroes in the Trojan War (the same war which forced Aeneas to leave Troy and is described in Boo...