The legend inspired JMW Turner to paint a grand canvas entitled 'Lake Avernus – The Fates and the Golden Bough', now held by the Tate Collection In Roman mythology, the bough was a tree branch with ...
WHEN Æneas visited ‘ the place that hath no road for living men,’ he carried in his hand a golden bough. Whether the poet found this branch growing in the forest of his own luxuriant imagination, or ...