Virgil is believed to have died on September 21, 19 B. C.

Pubilious Vergilius Maro was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.  During his time, he wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin Literature.  These are the Ecologues,  the Georgics and the epic subject to this post, the Aeneid.

The latter of which, the Aeneid is considered the national epic of ancient Rome.  It tells of how the Trojan refugee Aeneas struggles for his destiny and reaches Italy.  His descendants, Romulus and Remus go on to found the city of Rome.

Book Six tells of how through the guidance of the Cumaean Sibyl, Aeneas descends into the underworld.   Passing through the dead throngs along the banks of the Acheron, they are ferried across by Charon before passing by Cerberus.  It is there then that Aeneas is showed in Tartarus what comes to the wicked.  He is warned by Sibyl to be just to the Gods and is then taken to the verdant fields of Elysium.  His father’s spirit prophesies to him about his destiny and the founding of Rome.

The Sixth Book of the Aeneid may be read beginning here:

http://www.bartleby.com/13/6.html

Or, alternatively, listened to in an audiobook format:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGMH6Q1VgLw&t=11s