The Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st
century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a
Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is
written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the
story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half
treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name
Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.