Founding of Rome the line of Romans through his son Iulus, the namesake of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The national epic of mythical Rome, the "Aeneid" of Virgil, tells the story of how Trojan prince Aeneas came to Italy. The "Aeneid" was written under Augustus, who claimed ancestry through Julius Caesar from the hero and his mother Venus. According to the "Aeneid", the survivors from the fallen city of Troy banded together under Aeneas and underwent a series of adventures around the Mediterranean Sea, including a stop at newly founded Carthage under the rule of Queen Dido, eventually reaching the Italian coast. The Trojans
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon" was very well received when it was published in 1991. "The Washington Post" called it "amazing" and "dazzlingly accomplished" and "The Oregonian" said the novel "boldly creates a new voice from the Old West." "The New York Times" was equally effusive: "The miracle of the novel is that it obliges us to rethink our whole idea of narration and history and myth." The "Los Angeles Times" found it "brave, original, ribald, funny, <nowiki>[and]</nowiki> heart-rending" and concluded that the book is "as bright as it is dark, full of fictional and philosophical pleasures,