Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem in twelve books by Virgil, written between about 29 and 19 BCE. It tells how the Trojan hero Aeneas escaped the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where his descendants would found Rome, and it served as a national epic for the Augustan regime. It was the most studied Latin poem of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and Gavin Douglas translated it into Scots in 1513.