Lavinia

In her novel "Lavinia," American author Ursula Le Guin draws on the Aeneid, in which Virgil devotes his most prominent verses to Aeneas''s second wife, Lavinia, focusing on her as a prophecy.On the day before Aeneas''s arrival in Latinium, a mysterious fire catches the hair of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus and Queen Amata, who ruled Latinium in pre-Roman times. Amata loses her two young sons t...