Aeneid: Book 8 Book eight of the Aeneid starts with Aeneas in an anxious and nervous mood. With Turnus rallying his troops, and the uncertainty of aid from other territories, Aeneas’ mind is in turmoil. His thoughts are further confused when he sleeps that night and has a prophetic dream. He dreams he is lying on the bank of a river when the God of the Tiber river appears. He eases Aeneas’ troubled mind by saying …showed first 75 words of 1192 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1192 total…great frequency without causing damage to anything. This suggests that as often as Vulcan and his workers make anything, there will be at least a minor eruption. Vergil, even thousands of years before any system had been developed, seemed to be trying to classify different types of volcanoes by explaining what creature lived underneath them. It can be said, then, that Vergil was inventing his own mythology to explain how a natural event was occurring.