<P> Aeneas finishes his story, and Dido realizes that she has fallen in love with Aeneas . Juno seizes upon this opportunity to make a deal with Venus, Aeneas's mother, with the intention of distracting Aeneas from his destiny of founding a city in Italy . Aeneas is inclined to return Dido's love, and during a hunting expedition, a storm drives them into a small covered grove in which Aeneas and Dido presumably have sex, an event that Dido takes to indicate a marriage between them . But when Jupiter sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his duty, he has no choice but to part . Her heart broken, Dido commits suicide by stabbing herself upon a pyre with Aeneas's sword . Before dying, she predicts eternal strife between Aeneas's people and hers; "rise up from my bones, avenging spirit" (4.625, trans . Fitzgerald) is a possible invocation to Hannibal . Looking back from the deck of his ship, Aeneas sees the smoke of Dido's funeral pyre and knows its meaning only too clearly . Nevertheless, destiny calls, and the Trojan fleet sails on to Italy . </P> <P> Book 5 takes place on Sicily and centers on the funeral games that Aeneas organizes for the anniversary of his father's death . Aeneas and his men have left Carthage for Sicily, where Aeneas organizes celebratory games--a boat race, a foot race, a boxing match, and an archery contest . In all those contests, Aeneas is careful to reward winners and losers, showing his leadership qualities by not allowing antagonism even after foul play . Each of these contests comments on past events or prefigures future events: the boxing match, for instance, is "a preview of the final encounter of Aeneas and Turnus", and the dove, the target during the archery contest, is connected to the deaths of Polites and King Priam in Book 2 and that of Camilla in Book 11 . Afterwards, Ascanius leads the boys in a military parade and mock battle, a tradition he will teach the Latins while building the walls of Alba Longa . </P> <P> During these events (in which only men participate), Juno incites the womenfolk to burn the fleet and prevent the Trojans from ever reaching Italy, but her plan is thwarted when Ascanius and Aeneas intervene . Aeneas prays to Jupiter to quench the fires, which the god does with a torrential rainstorm . An anxious Aeneas is comforted by a vision of his father, who tells him to go to the underworld to receive a vision of his and Rome's future . In return for safe passage to Italy, the gods, by order of Jupiter, will receive one of Aeneas's men as a sacrifice: Palinurus, who steers Aeneas's ship by night, falls overboard . </P> <P> In Book 6, Aeneas, with the guidance of the Cumaean Sibyl, descends into the underworld through an opening at Cumae . They pass by crowds of the dead by the banks of the river Acheron and are ferried across by Charon before passing by Cerberus . Then Aeneas is shown the fates of the wicked in Tartarus and is warned by the Sibyl to bow to the justice of the gods . He is then brought to green fields of Elysium . There he speaks with the spirit of his father and is offered a prophetic vision of the destiny of Rome . </P>

Who tells aeneas to go to the underworld