This epic poem by Virgil begins when a Trojan hero & his followers are shipwrecked near Carthage
According to Homer, Menelaus and his ally, Odysseus, traveled to 
Troy,... [DOC] [TLE] SparkNotes: The Aeneid: Book I [PAR] Virgil opens his epic poem by declaring its subject, warfare and a man at war, 
and asking a ... holds that the race descended from the Trojans will someday 
destroy Carthage.