Book 3: Achates

Well, Aeneas finally wrapped up the story of the Trojan War, but then he moved on to the telling of our travels. Aeneas said that Apollo advised us to head to the land of our ancestors. Anchises immediately "recognized" that these message was directing us to the island of Crete. That was a mistake. Famine and, most of all, disease, everywhere. Then Aeneas relayed that the gods had intended for us to sail to Italy. In spite of all of the death and tragedy, I couldn't help but realize that a more accurate history lesson could have saved us from all of that death. I don't blame Anchises or Aeneas; I would have recommended the same destination. Likewise, Aeneas was only paying his due respect to his father. Our next settling point was that dreaded island of the harpies. I still fear their ominous curse of a future famine. We have already suffered a plague that I wouldn't wish on anyone else, except for maybe the Greeks... Speaking of which, we landed on a former territory of Pyrrhus, the very spawn of Achilles. Except, it was delightfully not under Achaean power anymore but of Trojan, by Helenus and Andromache. They were taken as war prizes by Pyrrhus. However, when Pyrrhus was killed for stealing the spouse of another man (the VERY reason that the Achaeans came to Troy, between Paris and Helen, which I find to be beyond hilarious as Pyrrhus thus justly deserved his demise), Helenus and Andromache took over the island! How nice it was to see more territory being re-established with Trojan blood. And I thank Zeus we were delivered to Andromache, as she advised us on how to avoid the dreaded Scylla and Charybdis. Finally, through the divine help of the gods once again.We arrived at Carthage. And so Aeneas finished his telling of our travels.