Lavinia (2008)

Lavinia scarcely has a voice in the Aeneid, although the struggle over her marriage helps determine its outcome. Le Guin gives her a life in ancient Italy and makes the apparently passive prize a person confronting duty, desire and the future promised to others. The novel is in conversation with Vergil, not merely borrowing his names. Readers curious about the Aeneid's ending will find a particularly rewarding question here: what happens to a life after an epic has finished using it?