“The Aeneid” is the story of an exiled Trojan prince, who founds the first settlement in Italy after the destruction of Troy by the Greeks in the 12th century BC. It is the story of the ...

But it’s best to hear it from him. Of the period his book covers, which is roughly the 3rd century BC to the 12th-13th centuries CE, he writes: “What Greece was first to Rome, then to the rest ...