VIRGIL: The Aneid, Book VI, Gate of Horn and Gate of IVory

[Caroline Lee]

In Book VI, Aeneaus descends to the underworld.  At the end of Book VI, we 
are told that there are two gates through which dreams and ghosts ascend to 
the world above: true ones pass through the gates of horn, false ones 
through the gates of ivory.  After his visit to the realm of the dead, we 
are told, Aeneas and the Sibyl return to the world above through the gates 
of ivory.  I am stumped by the implications for what Aeneas has just 
witnessed and the future of his epic.

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