A Detailed Treatment of Virgil’s “Aeneid‪”‬

After the fall of Troy, Aeneas led Trojan survivors to Italy. After suffering hardships, they arrived at the Tiber River. They had to fight a war against a coalition of Italian peoples. They emerged victorious, so that Aeneas married an Italian princess and founded a city. The descendants of these Trojan settlers later founded the city of Rome.