Golden Bough (mythology)

Detail of The Golden Bough by J. M. W. Turner (1834)

The Golden Bough is one of the episodes of the Aeneid, an epic poem by the Roman poet Virgil (70–19 BC), which narrates the adventures of the Trojan hero Aeneas after the Trojan War. The episode of the golden bough is found in the sixth book of the Aeneid and concerns Aeneas's journey into the underworld.

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