... Italy. After landing at the mouth of the Tiber River in Italy, Aeneas killed Turnus, the king of the Rutulians, in a war for the hand of Lavinia, who was the princess of Latium. According to Virgil, the Romans were direct descendents of Ascanius, the founder of Alba Longa, the mother city of Rome. The Aeneid is usually considered the first great literary epic, unlike the Iliad, which in essence is ... a work of oral poetry. The Aeneid was written as a ... out and assigned two of Virgil's poet friends, Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca, to edit the manuscript for publication. The work was ...

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• Grade Level: High School