Alfred J. Church’s Æneid for Boys and Girls is a faithful retelling of Virgil’s Æneid. This classic story tells of the voyage of Æneas, a Trojan warrior, who has to forge his way in the world after the fall of Troy in the Trojan War. Written to help unify Ancient Rome under Caesar Augustus, the Æneid became the romantic, mythical history that they Romans longed for. In the tale, Aeneas becomes the legendary ancestor of the Roman people.