The Aeneid is a story about the founding of Rome, written only a few decades before Christ’s birth. Augustus Caesar commissioned it to be written to Virgil, a poet of the late 1st century B.C. Now let’s get into the summary of the book.
The Trojan war had been waging for years. The Trojan horse had just been set to the Trojans. The men who were hidden inside set the city ablaze, and only few Trojans escaped. A prince of Troy, Aeneas was one of those few. He and his family escaped Troy and set sail, winding up in Carthage. The Queen of Carthage, Dido, fell in love with Aeneas, but he did not want to stay in Carthage, rather, to find a new land where his descendants could dwell. Aeneas did, however, stay at least 7 years, and when he left Dido was so broken hearted that she committed suicide. Aeneas then set sail, this time winding up in modern day Italy. He makes a truce with the current civilizations of Italy. There, a few generations later, Aeneas’s descendants would found the city of Rome, which, MANY generations later, would conquer most of the known world. That is supposed to be the story of the founding of Rome, though whether that is how it really happened, no one knows…