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Hello everyone. I'm Olympia. Thank you for being here with me in this wonderful place called Lights Out Library,

and I have a great story to tell you.

The Anid, the Roman equivalent to the Iliad and Odyssey,

is an extraordinary long story that will take us from the ruins of Troy,

conquered and destroyed by the Greeks, to the foundation of antiquity's greatest empire,

by a group of Trojan fugitives led by Aeneas.

There will be adventure, love, God's interventions, fights, prophecies, and even a journey to the underworld.

I will also tell you about the author of the Aeneet,

the structure and posterity of this work, as well as its

cultural and political significance. But let's begin immediately with the first chapter of our

story, one that will take us to Troy, at the moment when the Trojans thought they had won

their ten-year-long war against the Greeks, but in reality they were in great danger of losing

everything. You know, the Trojan war, as it was told in the Iliad and the Odyssey,

all the kings and cities from Greece, the Achaeans gathered to attack the powerful city of Troy

on the other side of the Aegean Sea.

But Troy was well protected behind its walls, defended by heroes and even

supported by some gods, like Poseidon, which is Neptune to the Romans, Aphrodite, which is Venus to the

Romans, and Apollo.

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