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Aeneid
The Aeneid (; ) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers
as Tiberinus, Aventinus, Alba, and Capetus. Others are rationalizations of mythical figures, or pure inventions to provide notable ancestors for status-seeking families. In the "Aeneid", Virgil invents characters into living beings not unlike the heroes of Homer. The events described toward the end of the "Aeneid" were a nationalistic interpretation of perceived historical events in Roman history. However, despite being a later invention, the Silvian house or "gens Silvia" likely did exist.
In literature.
- In Dante