Jorge Luis Borges claimed that the way this character returns from one voyage symbolizes the author’s belief that the world of Platonic forms is more real than the actual world. Two doves answer a prayer this character makes in a forest while collecting wood for a funeral pyre. After this character is unable to pacify his former lover, that lover finds comfort from her husband Sychaeus. With a prophetess who tames a monster with a drugged honey cake, this character travels through the second of the (*) gates of horn and ivory. This character is told of a long line of descendents that includes Proca and Silvius while watching souls be reborn at the river Lethe. This character plucks the Golden Bough to enter the underworld, where his father Anchises prophesies his future wife Lavinia in Italy. For 10 points, name this pious Trojan hero who is the subject of an epic by Virgil. ■END■
ANSWER: Aeneas
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