Lindsey's Library

Synopsis

It’s been over ten years since the Trojan War was fought by the heroes Achilles, Hector, and Agamemnon. Aeneas has been sailing around the world looking for home, which he eventually finds in what is now Italy. However, the bulk of this story is not about the Trojan War or the escapades of Aeneas. It’s about Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus and Queen Amata, the last wife of Aeneas to whom Virgil only dedicates a few lines in his epic poem The Aeneid. Le Guin seeks to expand the role and life of Lavinia by giving her a longer story, and weaving Aeneas into it rather than the other way around. …