Landfalls, Ports of Call (book 3)

  The third book really reinforces the idea that Aeneas is destined and has to make it to Italy and that his path is set by the gods. Each time he gets to a place that is suitable to build a city the gods cast down some type of destruction on him forcing them to move on. It doesn't seem like it but many years go by in the third book which also tells that they are suffering more than Aeneas is letting on. This makes the epic journey of making a new empire even more impressive considering the plague, harpies, and cyclops they must face. Nothing is impressive, if it was easy to do. Another reason that even though the places Aeneas try's to set down in are nice, there is something wrong with them because that place is not Italy. Another thing to note is that just like Odysseus, Aeneas goes to the island of the cyclops, this is to reinforce the "rebirthing" of the trojans after being struck down by the greeks. Aeneas is going the same path as Odysseus but is making a stronger empire off the same journey.