and Aeneas remain household names even today. The Trojan War and its events provide the background for two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which were supposedly composed by the poet Homer ...

Aeneas and crew get blown off course and land ... thing was basically a poetry slam – Virgil was out to beat his rival Homer (the poet, not the Simpson). D’oh!

and Aeneas remain household names even today. The Trojan War and its events provide the background for two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which were supposedly composed by the poet Homer ...