I finished Kneale’s excellent history of Rome and wanted more. I found this and am enjoying it!

Summary and Reading Guide
Overview
Lavinia is a 2008 novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin.

As her last novel, it tells part of the story of Virgil’s Aeneid from the perspective of Aeneas’s wife, Lavinia, who appears in the Aeneid as only a minor character.

Although primarily a retelling of myth, the novel also attempts to explore what little is known about the people of the Italian peninsula before the founding of Rome.

The subject matter of Lavinia differs dramatically from most of Le Guin’s more famous works, given that she wrote primarily science fiction and fantasy.

In this final novel, Le Guin explores Lavinia’s entire life, far beyond the limited detail provided by the Aeneid. Lavinia becomes aware that she’s a character in a story, which changes her relationship to fate and duty.