book 3

• among other things, Aeneas goes past Actium
• Battle of Actium - the naval battle in 31 BC in which Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and became the supreme ruler in Rome
• he gets a prophecy that he will know he has arrived at the destined place when they are so hungry that they eat their tables
• his father, Anchises, dies while they are in Sicily