It’s a tale of Aeneas’s journey to the underworld; our plucky hero must cross the Styx, journey from Troy to Rome and then ... a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil’s way of ...

escaped from falling Troy with his father, the blind Anchises, on his back. He sailed to Italy, and there, according to Virgil’s Aeneid, founded the city of Rome, which in turn conquered Greece.

It describes how the ancient Greeks infiltrated the city of Troy by concealing themselves ... of the Trojan Horse showed up in the poem Aeneid by Virgil, more than a millennium after the scheme ...