'Like Spartan Helen, I Caused a War. She Caused Hers by Letting Men Who Wanted Her Take Her. I Caused Mine Because I Wouldn't Be Given, Wouldn't Be Taken, but Chose My Man and My Fate. the Man Was Famous, the Fate Obscure; Not a Bad Balance.' Lavinia is the Daughter of the King of Latium, a Victorious Warrior Who Loves Peace; She is Her Father's Closest Companion. Now of an Age to Wed, Lavinia's Mother Favours Her Own Kinsman, King Turnus of Rutulia, Handsome, Heroic, Everything a Young Girl Should Want. Instead, Lavinia Dreams of Mighty Aeneas, a Man She Has Heard of Only From a Ghost of a Poet, Who Comes to Her in the Gods' Holy Place and Tells Her of Her Future, and Aeneas' Past ...If She Refuses to Wed Turnus, Lavinia Knows She Will Start a War - but Her Fate Was Set the Moment the Poet Appeared to Her in a Dream and Told Her of the Adventurer Who Fled Fallen Troy, Holding His Son's Hand and Carrying His Father on His Back.